For you, What is the meaning of “Be Honest, even if others are not, even if others will not, and even if others cannot.”
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Be honest, even if others are not, even if others will not and even if others cannot.”
These words are very poignant if only taken to the heart. Difficult as it is to be honest, it is more difficult to remain honest when all the others are not, will not and cannot. Not having established yet a firm principle against it, the youth are easily dissuaded by the influence of their environment. Seeing their peers and even their elders commit acts of dishonesty and get away with it makes them think that it’s okay to be dishonest as long as you don’t get caught. With this mentality in mind, dishonesty is slowly becoming part of the culture.
As early as their adolescent years, teens practice little acts of corruption. They might not be fooling a government but they are cheating on someone to their advantage. Teens do this at home by crafting simple stories to get extra cash from their parents. What the parents thought was money for their child’s books, projects and other miscellaneous fees was actually spent for other things: for gimmicks, shopping, etc. In school, cheating isn’t a crime to students; it is now rechristened to a more euphemistic term: ‘teamwork’. In a biennial survey of high school students in 2004, it is found out that 35% had copied an internet document for a classroom assignment, 62% had cheated during an examination at school and 83% had copied someone else’s homework at least once. An act which might be just a little embezzlement of money from parents or a little cheating of a test or assignment is still an act of dishonesty and does not make a difference. Remember the saying that “Big things come from small beginnings”? That saying applies not only to small businesses expanding large; it also applies to this. What you thought was just a petty act of dishonesty—too petty that it’s negligible, will actually proliferate and turn into a corruption that will plague a country. In the future, it might not just be a hundred pesos being misappropriated from mother or father’s pocket; it might be millions of pesos or dollars already. It might not just be your parents or your school you’ve cheated; it might be a whole country.
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