Be honest, it´s easier

We have some attitudes which are not good for us; the problem is when we think that those are good for us. It is a very common error. We usually think that the easier way is the correct, sometimes it is correct, but the most of the time s it is not.

As students we tend to get the highest grade, and we can do anything to get them, we even cheat in tests and ours homework. I’m pretty sure that we cheat just for our mark, we don’t mind if we have learnt or we haven’t, we do anything for a mark, we even lie.

When we cheat we are lying, we lie to others, tour teacher, to our families, to our friends and classmates, to ourselves, etc. How many people are counting in us? Have you ever thought about it? Have you ever talked with your parents about this? Let me guest…you have not (I have not). If we count our family, friend, teachers, employers, we can have around thirty people who are counting in us, would you like to disappoint them? Here it is an example: would you like your children cheat?

I have met a lot of people which are currently working, they are very hard-workers, but if you ask them any question about their works, they probably won’t answer you because they do not know the correct answer. It is a real story: when I worked as an air conditioner technician, I met a guy who was quite good in his job, everybody wanted to hire him, he also worked by his own. But he had a big problem: he only worked as a machine, he couldn’t explain why something works like that or why not, specially with electric works. One day I asked him why he didn’t know the cause of the refrigeration processes, he told me that he used to cheat while he was in the school, he only learnt to work as a machine, he always do the same processes with every refrigeration system.

As you can see, cheating is not the correct way, maybe it is he easier, but we are going to be teachers, would you like yours students cheat? We must not do the same that we wouldn’t like that they’d do us.

We have just talked about cheating, but be honest is one of the most important things in the life, lying is good for nobody. If we always tell the truth for everything, our life will be easier, we will spare a lot of problems, we will be able to sleep in peace at nights, our conscience will be in calm.