How To Behave and Why -- Chapter Honest

Honest
People tell the truth
Other people know that
when they say something is so,
they can believe it
Now that is very handy,
because if you honest and promise to do something,
others will trust you.

They will share things with you tell you secrets,
lend you money,
and help you do many of
the things you want to do ---

BECAUSE

They know that what you promise
And what you say
is true.
They can count on it.

Only
A dope will tell a lie.

One of the quickest ways to lose your friends
and to make people dislike you is to lie
Some people think they can be smart
and fool others when they tell a lie –
but sooner or later the truth usually is found out
and the liar is sorry
because he knows
he won’t be trusted or believed the next time.

This one says his baby sister broke that mirror.
Would you trust him and want him for a friend ?

NobodyKnows

what to do with a person who doesn’t tell the truth
How can you believe a word they say ?
Even if they do tell the truth part of the time,
how can you know which times they mean it
and which times they don’t ?

No – we can’t say that just one little lie doesn’t count


It counts every time and
people can’t really know us
and like us unless they can believe what we say

Every
Time we tell a lie
we mix ourselves up more

After a while almost no one will believe us –
but worse that that ----
We can’t believe ourselves or anyone else,
because we don’t really know
what the truth is any more that a turtle
And that is a stupid way to live
As anyone call tell you

Stealing
Is something honest people don’t do

Taking things that
don’t belong to you is a sure way
to get into trouble and be unhappy

Good people can’t let bad people
take things from others secretly or by force
If they did the world would be a miserable place for everyone.
Nothing we own would be safe.
Grownups who steal are put in jail in almost every country
and that is one way a person loses
all his friends for a long long time

There

Is another way to make people dislike you
that is half like lying and half like stealing ---
and it’s just as bad as either of them.
That is
CHEATING
#$@%%@…!?>&@!**

In playing games
Working at school
Trading things or buying or selling the person
who cheats will make enemies of those he cheats
and other people won’t like or trust him.
Nothing we get by cheating is worth what we lose with our friends.