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hope you are doing great.
My goal is that some letters will leap from this page and
connect with you in the most radical way that will launch you to your dreamland.
Still discussing the subject: The Virtue in Consistency!
I ended the first part of this discuss with the Jewish
proverb - ‘Truth is heavy, so few men carry it.’
Well, my hope is that you will enlist yourself amongst the
few desiring to carry it, because it has a rewarding effect after bearing it.
One element that consistency communicates is reliability or in
other word - dependability.
Are you a reliable personality? Are you a fellow that one
can risk believing in and not just exercising hope that you will abide by the
constitution of your utterances?
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Reliability |
I once read a story
that showed the beauty of being dependable. Permit me to share… In the 19th
Century, a British Parliamentarian travelled to Scotland to deliver a speech. On
his way, his carriage got stuck in mud and left him in a hopeless scene. Then,
a young Scottish farm boy appeared with a team of drafted horses and dragged
out his carriage. Insisting on paying the boy for the help, the boy refused and
said, ‘that it was a privilege to help such an important personality as him,’ then
he asked the boy, ‘what he would want to become when he grows up?’ The boy
replied, ‘I’d like to be a doctor, but I doubt that it will happen since my
family doesn’t have the money for such education.’ ‘Then I will help you become
a doctor,’ said the old politician.
As years went by the Member of Parliament kept his promise…
Fifty years later, another famous English statesman lay
close to death due to pneumonia. Winston Churchill had become ill while
attending a wartime conference and England desperately needed his leadership as
Hitler threatened to destroy the nation. Churchill miraculously recovered
because his physician gave him an injection of a new wonder drug called
penicillin. Penicillin had recently been discovered by Alexander Fleming. And
Alexander Fleming was the young boy who had pulled the stalled carriage from
the mud. And the man who had promised to return the favour by sending him to
medical school was Winston Churchill’s father, Sir Randolph Churchill.
Wow! The twist of life!
In an unknown place, to an unknown boy; he uttered a
commitment to the hearing of just himself, the boy and probably his horses– ‘I
will help you become a doctor.’ And the boy staked his destiny on these few
lines of words and that was it.
And fifty years later, not just did the boy save his son’s
life but the entire British kingdom from the evil adventure of Hitler.
Just come to think of it again: A little verbal exchange
between none equal class sealed the fate of Europe fifty years after.
Aesop writes: a doubtful friend is worse than a certain
enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him!
Again I ask: Are you a reliable fellow? Are your promises as
potent as a bank draft? Can people hinge their destiny on your promises? At the
various corners of life when you make desperate promises with few watching eyes
and listening ears do you stay true to it?
Being reliable or dependable is one of the virtues of a
consistent personality.
POINT TO RUMINATE ON: This has depth! Please read…’for the shifts
of fortune test the reliability of friends!’
Authored by: ANOINTED ENOH
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