Thursday, January 27, 2011

Honesty and Integrity

Here is the Copy paste of the meaning of the Following words Honesty & Integrity
(I'm trying to be honest eh....)
Honest
  • Not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
  • Worthy of being depended on
  • Gained or earned without cheating or stealing
Integrity
  • An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
  • Moral soundness

While I'm bit with some unusual itch of learning some meaning and putting it to application.. I found an apt example which some one said to me, which defines the larger meaning of the above words..

Here is a milkman who supplies milk to my friends home.. these days he dilutes milk with water...
May times my friend sulked and one fine day the milk man thought he has to be honest to his customers..
He said ' Sir, with prices raising and lot of inflation around ,, I can't sustain with the price you pay per liter and hence I dilute'...
My friend agreed and appreciated his honesty.. at the same time this man with the label 'milk-man'  has to sell the milk alone and not water ?.. which means he lost the integrity

I told my friend I'm trying to soak in the definition in my head ..

Applied Common sense [or] Functional Literacy..

While I was pondering the meanings  common sense and functional literacy .. I recalled an anecdote I had experienced some time back.. 
As a cyber slave of an mnc I happen to put my bum many times in a month on the airline seat !!
It happened when one of my colleague and I were returning from Delhi in a KF airline. My colleague's Seat was hijacked by a neta ( yes you are right, it was a man dressed in the typical dress Indian politican don) He had an argument with my friend and of sheer common sense my friend asked him to show his boarding pass.. He got furious, by then his chela ( personal assistant ) came searching for him and told him that " Sir aap ki seat udhar hai' ( sir your seat is there ).. pointing to the business class.. and winked at my friend and told his boss.. yeh sob hot hai (It all happens)
But them I told my friend..a quote I had read.. 
Politics is the last resort of a scoundrel
and we had  good fun discussing, politics/common sense and functional Literacy !!
Guess what this guy is not aware of what class of Ticket was booked for him !!
But then when we landed we were getting out of the exit gate with big laughter and surprised to find people garlanding this man and some touching his feet..
We just slipped in the narrow gaps found between the people to save our Skin..