There was a
farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker. One day the baker
decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound and he
found that he was not. This angered him and he took the farmer to court.
The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer
replied, amour Honor, I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but
I do have a scale." The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the
butter?" The farmer replied "Your Honor, long before the baker started
buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from
him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale
and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is
the baker."
What
is the moral of the story? We get back in life what we give to others.
Whenever you take an action, ask yourself this question: Am I giving
fair value for the wages or money I hope to make? Honesty and dishonesty
become a habit. Some people practice dishonesty and can lie with a
straight face. Others lie so much that they don't even know what the
truth is anymore. But who are they deceiving? Themselves
