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| Truth can set you Free! |
Often truth is under-rated. One does not perhaps realise how being truthful can make our lives simpler, easier and lighter. However, given the world we are living in today, it may not be always easy to speak the truth. It can definitely be challenging! As George Orwell said aptly, “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. Yet we must remember that truth is powerful and it prevails. If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future!
Here is an interesting short story on truth.
An empress with no children decided to hold a competition to determine who would succeed her when she died. She summoned all the children in the city to her palace and gave each one a seed. "Plant this seed, care for it, and in one year bring back the flower that grows from it. Whoever brings me the most beautiful flower will be the next empress."
One young girl planted her seed in a pot and watered it every day, but nothing grew. At the end of the year she was devastated, but on the day set for inspection of the flowers she picked up her pot and carried it to the palace.
All the other children brought colorful, vibrant flowers, but the empress only glanced at them. She walked straight to the young girl and smiled. "All the seeds I gave you had been boiled and were dead. Only you were honest enough to bring back the original seed I gave you. You will be a just and wise empress."
➤ Life Lesson: Always tell the truth, even when it seems easier not to. That way, you don't have to remember what you said. Telling a lie requires weaving a fiction and leads you into a maze of multiplying falsehoods and forgetting the details of your original lie. You essentially trap yourself!
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