Pedro phoned his friend: ‘hi… I wanted to talk to you…’
Friend sounded irritated: ‘not now… I am stuck in my car in the middle of a massive traffic jam…’
Pedro: ‘How is that possible… I have called you on your home landline!’
In the telecom age, such phony responses keep happening. Especially, due to the mobile phone, some people think they can speak any falsehood and get away with it. In the above instance, the receiver blurted out his standard answer to avoid further conversation whenever he received a call on his mobile phone.
In a scene from the Hindi film Agneepath, the character played by Amitabh Bachchan says, ‘Galat cheez banaya telephone… udhar se aadmi sochta kuch hai, bolta kuch hai, karta kuch hai…’ (Telephone is a bad thing… on the other side, the person thinks one thing, says another thing and does something else)
The phone is a wonderful invention that helps persons communicate across distances. However, the distance is used by some to mislead. Of course, all who lie may not be intentional liars but they could well be habitual liars. We must beware the tendency to be fraudulent just because we perceive that the other person can not see.
It is said so well that our character is truly determined in the dark. It is how we behave when we know that nobody is watching. We must align our values with our thoughts, our thoughts with our talk and our talk with our walk. Otherwise we may end up being phony, not just on the phone but as a worthless life habit!
Don’t be phony on phone or otherwise
The value of truth makes worthiness rise!
~ Pravin K Sabnis
Friend sounded irritated: ‘not now… I am stuck in my car in the middle of a massive traffic jam…’
Pedro: ‘How is that possible… I have called you on your home landline!’
In the telecom age, such phony responses keep happening. Especially, due to the mobile phone, some people think they can speak any falsehood and get away with it. In the above instance, the receiver blurted out his standard answer to avoid further conversation whenever he received a call on his mobile phone.
In a scene from the Hindi film Agneepath, the character played by Amitabh Bachchan says, ‘Galat cheez banaya telephone… udhar se aadmi sochta kuch hai, bolta kuch hai, karta kuch hai…’ (Telephone is a bad thing… on the other side, the person thinks one thing, says another thing and does something else)
The phone is a wonderful invention that helps persons communicate across distances. However, the distance is used by some to mislead. Of course, all who lie may not be intentional liars but they could well be habitual liars. We must beware the tendency to be fraudulent just because we perceive that the other person can not see.
It is said so well that our character is truly determined in the dark. It is how we behave when we know that nobody is watching. We must align our values with our thoughts, our thoughts with our talk and our talk with our walk. Otherwise we may end up being phony, not just on the phone but as a worthless life habit!
Don’t be phony on phone or otherwise
The value of truth makes worthiness rise!
~ Pravin K Sabnis
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