10. Do you expect others to be honest with you?

Do you expect others to be honest with you?

You may think, the answers is obviously 'yes.'

I am not going to counter you with a question, "Are you honest with others?" I assume that you are. as otherwise, you ( a fair-minded person) may not be expecting honesty from others.

Well, your experience might have been that some people have been honest with you and some others are not. You are upset with those who are not. This is because you feel that you think you have a right to expect honesty from others since you have been honest with them.

But are you right about your expectation?

Let us consider an analogy. You would have received gifts from many people at different times. There are occasions when we receive gifts from others. And we are happy about receiving these gifts. Not that we need them. 

But in a way we expect them on certain occasions. But will you expect an expensive gift from everyone? We know that everyone can't give an expensive gift. 

There are people who are not economically so well placed. Such people may not be able to give us expensive gifts and we don't expect expensive gifts from these people.

Being economically weak is not a sin. Mostly, a person's economic status is decided by many factors not in the control of that person.

But there are people who are morally poor, even morally bankrupt. You may not even know that they are morally poor unless you have had dealings with them. You come to know of this only when you find that they were not honest you.

It is only natural that you expect everyone to be good, everyone to be honest, everyone to be kind and hopeful. But when you find that the results are different from your expectations, don't feel upset. Just remember this:

Honesty is an expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people!