According to the Cambridge
dictionary, honesty is the quality of being truthful or being able to be trusted
or the quality of not being able to steal, cheat or lie.
So, you can see what a good quality
it is and how important it is for one to posses this quality.
Honesty requires one to be truthful.
So it is a good quality for friends to have. Friends must be truthful to one
another so that there is mutual trust. Friends must not cheat or betray one
another. So-called friends who cheat or betray us are not really friends but
are actually enemies in disguise.
Honesty must also be present in a
marriage or the relationship will not last. Marriage partners must not cheat
and have affairs with others. They must remain faithful to the one they have
vowed to love in health or in sickness and during good times or bad. An honest
couple have to stick through thick or thin, through heaven or through hell.
A
child must also have honesty. He must be honest to his parents so that his
parents will have complete trust in him. He must not do undesirable things that
hurt his parents. He must act in ways that make them happy such as
concentrating on his study and avoiding bad company.
Honesty
is also important in an employee. An employee must carry out his work honestly
so that both his employer and he, himself, will prosper. Dishonesty at work
such as not doing one's share of work properly or stealing employers' goods
will harm both the firm he is working for and he, himself. Eventually the firm
will have to close down and the employee lose his job.
Honesty
is also important in a politician although many people think that politicians
are never honest. Voters can see through a politician's falsehood and not vote
for him. An honest politician stands out as a shining beacon towards whom the
voters are attracted. Although many people believe that no politicians are
honest, there are honest ones. And these are the ones that are elected. An
honest politician is important because when he is elected and governs the
country, he will not mislead, cheat or betray the people who have elected him.
He will not act in his own interest but will act in the interest of the whole
nation. Dishonest politicians are the cause of most of the world's troubles
today.
From
the foregoing, we can see how important honesty is in our lives,
whatever we
may be.
