Honor Yourself

" A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles"

My last blog I thanked a lot of people for waiting for my blogs. Here are some people whom you don’t know and they benefit from what you have to say. But then there are also some people whom you may have a close association with and they neither care nor bother about you. 

Something of similar to this happened when what was supposed to be an old friend called up a few days back. We had a fall out because we didn’t see eye to eye about each others’ moral values and had polar opposite views about principles of life. So I was surprised to receive this call and while he chatted about his new job and new life, I had the urgency to hang up. Two days ago I receive a background verification call about this same person from a company and this time I was not so surprised to find out that he had given fake documents. The whole reason about the call just flashed by and more than hurt it is disgust to know that I had at one time called him my friend. 

People close to me know that I live by some moral principles and ethics which I don't compromise with. He knew that about me too considering the number of times I had reprimanded him for a number of activities and yet the audacity to create phony documents knowing well enough that they would eventually come to me for verification and then calling me to butter me up.. Man!! How shallow can you get! Anyway, I am done with such people.

On a different note, people who read this, please have a decent set of values and principles to lead your life. Lying and cheating should not be a standard code of conduct. A job is too petty a thing to compromise your values for it and moreover the chances are that if you are honest about yourself you need not live with the fear of losing your job once the truth comes out.