If You're Not Honest--Is that Alright?

      Honesty is in demand today. Billy Joel's song "Honesty' says it all. "If You search for tenderness. It isn't hard to find. You can have the love you need to live. But if you look for truthfulness you might just as well be blind. It always seems to be so hard to give.Honesty is such a lonely word."Everyone wants honest dealing with somebody else. But can we do  or reciprocate the same?

      Even the hoodlums, hustlers, and criminals want honest transactions at least for their own favor. They're ready to kill if they're shortchanged in the transaction. Word of honor is the name of the game. Those who violate it would suffer the consequence which is usually death.

      We can't imagine the world without the values of honesty. A husband may abandon the wife and children which is contrary to the promises he made in the altar of the church during the wedding day. Business would collapse if the label outside the products are not true. Government may be overthrown because instead of protecting and serving the people it is the government that violates the social contract.

         Honesty and trustworthiness are the true bulwarks of all relationships in the world whether it's political, business, family, love, religious and others. Without honesty, no genuine relationship or transaction would happen. So whatever our beliefs in political or religious persuasions what we all need is honestly otherwise the world would go berserk and we'll all stop to exist.