In a world where corruption is all around does it pay to be honest?

Is honesty the best policy?
Remember our mother always saying it always pays to be honest.

Your invited over for dinner and there having pot roast." yummy "
but the cook didn't do such a great job of it.
but you continue to get through it anyway, not wanting to hurt her feelings. thank god there was the family dog near the table.

The cook mentions oh you must of loved the roast would you like some more?
To your reply I'm pretty full, thank you anyway.

Now if we were honest, we would of been truthful and just said your dinner was disgusting!

Now the people were very nice only there cooking was terrible.

Two weeks later you break a leg in an accident. Your laid up for a while. You pretty much cannot get around. Your friend that had you over for dinner a while back, brings you over a plate of dinner. Guess what it's her famous pot roast!

So we ask ourselves is honesty the best policy?

Now we want to be honest and in our hearts, we want to trust people and confide in them about personal affairs in our lives. Do we dare?

I have a close friend of mine we will call her Davina.
Davina decided to take a job 300 miles away from her family adventually relocating when the establishment got on its feet.

She was sacrificing quite a bit to get ahead she knew she didn't want to be away from her family for long periods of time and they really needed the money in these hard times.
At night when the store was closed she blew up her air mattress and pluged in her heating blanket and prepared for the cold night.
Davina wanted to save every dollar she had so she decided to go this rout enstead of paying for motels. So she decided to sleep in the store. Which was alright with her employer.

So not only did they have a supervisor they now had store security.
Davina would go the extra mile and work extra hours into the night and also extra early hours also.

So after working about a month she noticed things turning for the worse.
Her employer really started changing his aditude towards her.

Well to make the long story short, Davina ended up quitting tired of the abuse. Not to mention her employer and Davina made an oral agreement that her pay was to be paid under the table. Davina confided in her employer personal information that might incriminate her and her family. Her employer had plenty to hide also especially when he didn't want to declare his taxes.

So really is it better to be honest ? in this case maybe not.

When it all comes down to reality in the real world, "honesty is not always the best policy"

You cannot trust anyone or can you?

























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life a precious gift...

We wake every morning with a start of a new day. But do we really live life to the fullest savoring every moment of our precious life?
I think it's in ourselves to take advantage of our gift of life. I've been very sick the past month thinking I had a very bad case of a bladder infection or worst yet kidney. Well Monday morning I had to rush to the hospital emergency room. Come to find out my prognosis was fibroids in my uterus. And if untreated leads to cancer. I was never one to get annual physicals. If I did go see a doctor,it was only for the flu. I figured what was the point? My over all health was never an issue. I now know when women get to a certain age, regular physicals are very important. A close friend of mine attended a funeral not long ago for a close female friend of his. It turned out to be cervical cancer,they detected it a little too late and she died. She was very young also. It's very sad when we women cannot be bothered to take some personal time for our well being. Why do we have to wait till were dying? Putting things off tomorrow, tomorrow, well tomorrow maybe too late. We need to stop being so caught up in our busy lives and if not think for ourselves, think about our children and family who will be devastated if we were gone. Life
a precious gift from god. We need to
show that we will cherish it...
Because we only get one chance.



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Why can we all be fiends?

I have a seven year old daughter, and as I was picking her from school yesterday she came skipping about like little girls do holding onto her friend's hand.

It was so loving and cute. And it got me to thinking, what would the world be like if we were all like children? First of all I think we would all be having more friendship, and not take life too serious.

I think the majority of us get so absorbed in our lives working the 9 to 5 on a daily basis and never really having the time to stop and smell the roses and look for the little bit of beauty that surrounds us.

It's sad also that were so judgmental when it comes to people, do we really give everyone a chance for friendship? Do we judge people by appearances only? What they do for a living? What kind of car they drive, do they have the right color of skin? Do they come from the right side of town? Are they the right religion?

All these factors do they really matter? Are we too judgmental?
I think children should be a great example, they don't take much notice when picking friends. They will be at a park and pretty much ask any child, do you wanna play? Would you be my friend? Do you want to be in my club? Do you want to go to my birthday party?

Wow wouldn't it be wonderful if we all were so bold?
I know in reality, we all can't walk down the street holding onto our friends hands, but think about this: next time your at the public library, or on the subway, or at the bank, or just visiting your local park, and you see a stranger, don't hesitate say hello ask how their day is, give them a compliment.

After a brief conversation, you never know, be so bold and go for it! ask: "would you like to be my friend"? That person may surprise you. And you never know that person may be craving a person to just grab out and make that first move!

Believe me, karma is a great thing, by you throwing some real love into the world, it will all come back to you threefold.
Come on everyone let's put a smile on this busy, hectic, not so nice world we live in.

"Make peace, not war"

Make a friend today!

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