National Honesty Day
Seriously? We need a day set aside in which to be
honest?
M. Hirsh Goldberg, former press
secretary to a governor of Maryland
and author of five books, created National Honesty Day in the early 1990s. He
created this day, because he felt that the month of April, which begins with a
big day of lying (April Fools Day), should end on a higher moral note.
About a month ago, I did
something I vowed I would never do. I had some items for sale and I held them a
week for someone. Then he told me the
classic, "The check is in the mail." Then he told me, "I put the
wrong zip code on it," and added, "I will put the check in the mail
tomorrow."
Guess what? I have never seen that check. I sat myself down and lectured me. I hate chewing myself out, but it had to be
done. Then I thoroughly roughed myself up and ordered me never to do that
again. I took my self-imposed ruling with minimal whining, and I have thus far
obeyed my reminder.
It still annoys me that I could
have sold the items to someone else - if the guy had just been honest with
me. Maybe I should have sold him the
items today.
It seems to me that a day should
not have to be set aside for honesty, it should be a lifestyle.
"But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever
is more than these cometh of evil." Matthew 5:37.
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