This I believe, I believe in honesty where it counts like admitting when you're wrong or when you messed up and other assorted flukes or whatever. But admitting when you’ve done something bad or when you've messed up is pretty honorable in my book, so it is now storytime. The stage is set, I’m in 7th grade and I have an “I heart my own farts” bumper magnet that I took of a parked car in a McDonald's parking lot earlier that year. It was roughly 4:17am west coast time or 7:17am eastern. I reach into my computer bag which I am required to wear over my shoulder and look like a big fat nerd, and pull out the bumper magnet in which I stashed in there. This was premeditated, my plan was to slap the bumper magnet on the back of the bus as i walked behind it on a brisk spring morning. And it all went as planned I walked out of the bus door and spanked the magnet right onto the ass of the big nasty yellow school bus. I do not remember what I did for the rest of the day, I know I went to gym …show more content…
So everybody and their mother is on the bus and then Mrs. bus driver lady, who was probab stands up holding my bumper magnet and is clearly furious and is asking “WHO DID THIS?” and I being the bright, wide eyed, young man I am stood up and walked to the front and told her that I am the one responsible. She already did not like me fooling around on the bus but this to her was apparently “over the line” and “unfunny” and she “could have gotten a ticket for it” but whatever. I'm pretty sure everyone else on the bus thought otherwise but this was 3 years ago and man does time fly. I was granted a reserved seat in the front for the next couple weeks for that little stunt. The real reason I confessed to it was I didn't want any two-faced, big toothed, meanie head taking credit for my work of
Plato once said: “Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.” People are taught from a very young age never to lie or keep secrets. It would be easy for anyone to stand behind the argument: “Honesty is the best policy,” but in times of personal anguish, that decree is quickly disdained. What this argument fails to consider is that keeping a secret or lying is the justifiable in times of crisis.
When one does wrong, the common reaction is to hide it and pretend as if nothing happened. Because of the human conscience it is difficult to completely forget about a wrongdoing. Through our conscience guilt is built up and eventually that guilt shatters enough barriers and in turn causes the doer to admit his/her wrong.
morning I knew that I had to do something so I went around trying to
Barnes & Noble Inc. reached a deal to sell color tablets made by Samsung Electronics Co. co-branded with the book chain's Nook label. Samsung was co-brand a custom 7-inch tablet for Barnes & Noble (BKS) based on the manufacturer’s Galaxy Tab 4 model and featuring the bookseller’s Nook software. For Samsung, the deal brings the considerable heft of Barnes & Noble’s retail and online sales presence, particularly considering it's for a model the company already makes. The deal fulfills Barnes & Noble's previously stated plan to reduce its heavy investment in the Nook, which has been a financial drain in recent years, allowing the retailer to focus more on its stores and college business.
But now when i catch myself lying i ask myself why i’m lying and what for. Everytime i do this find the answer to why and i tell the truth. I’m not saying i always tell the truth but if it a little thing i tell a white lie but if it’s about something bigger than myself i will always tell the truth. I remember one time in my life my boyfriend told me that one of his friends who was in a long term relationship with my friend had been cheating on her and i remember when me and my friend were hanging out she told me that her boyfriend was acting weird lately and i told her not to worry about it and right after that i got this pit in my stomach and i felt so guilt that i left her house ten minute after that. I remember also sweating just by thinking about the lying. I told her a couple days later because of all the guilt and she became infuriated by what i told her and that i lied to her earlier when i knew. But after that situation we haven't been friends friends since then and i can understand why. I think that this is the reason why i no longer hide the big
Everyone realizes that the people around them are not perfect and that sometimes people need to forgive and forget to move on with life. In some cases forgiving and getting are an option, but in others it may not. Depending on the circumstances what a person says now may be the last thing someone hears in their life because no one is promised tomorrow. Mistakes happen but people need to be careful with what they do. Life changes everyday and people wish they had one more chance to fix things that went wrong but sometimes you cannot go back in time.
As a result, the placement of the bus when parked created an optical illusion. This made it seem from Barbara’s point of view as if the bus was flush with the curb and she could safely disembark. This wasn’t the case though. The bus was in fact parked at an odd angle from the sidewalk. The sidewalk was in fact two to three feet away from the bus, even though it looked flush. Barbara happened to be the first passenger to exit the bus. As she was exiting, she stepped down assuming there was a sidewalk under foot. Due to the awkward placement of the bus, she stepped down into thin air. This caused her to fall between the bus and sidewalk. The passengers who followed her off the bus inadvertently stepped on her as she struggled to regain her balance. To make matters worse, the bus driver called out to Barbara , “You didn’t fall of my bus! You must be stupid!” Not only was the bus driver uncompassionate towards his passenger’s plight, he was also inexperienced as he had only been on the job for around 10 months and was talking on a cell phone and acting carelessly while
I drove home and vegetated on every piece of food I had in my house. As if I had done so much just standing there all day, but emotionally I was exaughsted, so that defiantly had to have burned up some calories I am sure. I threw down some comfort food, cereal, chocolate, Zingers, like a Twinkie, only better! I remember sitting down getting ready to do some homework, thinking this is not going to cut. I closed my book and drifted off to sleep.
"Ironically", Okimoto said, "people who refused to apologize ended up with boosted feelings of integrity." Even though the person may not want to apologize and correct his wrongdoings, it is the best thing to do and will make you feel better in the
In the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology article, “I Cheated, but Only a Little”: Partial Confessions to Unethical Behavior, Eyal Peer, Alessandro Acquisti, and Shaul Shalvi study the “occurrence, antecedents, consequences, and everyday prevalence of partial confessions.” Human beings primarily confess to escape the guilt they may have from committing whatever wrongful deed. Partial confessions, intermediate between omission and full confession, might seem attractive as they are more believeable than complete omission, but at the same time do not reveal every little detail of the behavior. This article documents whether partial confessions actually help people feel better emotionally.
Apology opens the door to forgiveness by allowing us to have empathy for the wrongdoer.
Admit it: You 've lied. We all have at some stage or point in our life. Whether you 're asserting your feelings, getting it off your chest or just being plain and distinctly honest, the truth about honesty is that honesty isn 't always the best artery of choice. What 's more, striving on the avenue of complete disclosure can drive an unwanted wedge and result in permanent closure on a relationship. Today, the consequences of lying are often veiled from reality, the unvarnished truth is, we don 't need weapons to fatally hurt those closest to us as the act can be equally carried out with the sharp verbal cuts of a truthful tongue.
After a quick breakfast, I pulled some of my gear together and headed out. The car ride of two hours seemed only a few moments as I struggled to reinstate order in my chaotic consciousness and focus my mind on the day before me. My thoughts drifted to the indistinct shadows of my memory.
some lunch while I was on the sofa. After lunch was ready I ate all my food
As we were eating some sleazy greasy food, I obviously had to tell my friends about running from the law and my involvement. After telling all my friends about my night so far they all had a good laugh. Later that night when we were leaving the Waffle House the law was behind by my car running the tag. Once the law left we definitely decided it would be a good decision to go home. However, when we started to leave I put the petal to the metal. We fish tailed the car sideways, and as I was trying to regain control of the wheel I accidentally over corrected. If one knows anything about driving cars to fast and or wild, one of the biggest mistakes one can make is to over correct. Following my big mistake the car spun out of control off the road, into the ditch, up a hill, and finally came to a rest once I had hit a power pole with the rear bumper. As if the night had not already been embarrassing enough for me, this car accident put the amount of embarrassment I felt over the