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Monday, December 12, 2005
Integrity Opens the Door
We don’t recognize when we are doing it. Not even after we have done. We don’t admit when others protest; there is the egotist rapt in our soul, warring to repudiate yielding, eluding your desire to beget the non-spurious intonation – a ramification of our devout conscience. It cheats us, proves our debility to open a door through which the expression of non-corroded purity, from our true inner self, might try to emanate out. Yes, it makes us fake our actions, counterfeit our words with a gleam – make them look biased.

If you have got me by now, I am with exalted humility, speaking of the iniquity that pushes us to do it. And the “it” I speak, is the fraudulence we often set in motion, when we have our mouths open.

Integrity by definition means the quality of being honest and morally upright. Integrity is the cliché that must never say quits. It is purity, as pure as life itself, wealthier than any figment that should acquire all the gold in the worlds, as true as truth itself.

Our reputation is all we take to our grave – first-rate or awful. But who cares for what the grave has in stock; too busy to give a think to the living, we hurry past the pathway as though we know it like the back of our hands. We push through the seasons ceasing to have that pinch of guilt in our desolated souls (if I am not inflating it), taking forsake the every forbidden idea we utter so often – the lie. So easy has it become to do it – to sacrifice our integrity.

Good character builds trust and trust is the glue of relationship - the profoundly proclaimed necessity for every human, the commitment that verily inspires millions of souls. And so often we cheat these relationships. I don’t say we cheat people as they are not the need, but the relationship is. We spoil the splendor by the utterance of untrue words and undermine the saint in us. Dishonesty chokes true relations; be it friendship or any other.

Every time we speak a lie, we cause to make a crack in the foundation of our integrity. We may not have the guilt fountain starting, but we surely have sacrificed our self-respect. We have made ourselves weak and fragile and stand only on our feet with an illusion of honor but no light in our hearts when we do that. We might just not even feel anything when we have spoken a lie, but it definitely glues us to the evil. Dishonesty gets us closer to the evil spirit.

Bending integrity is not just about the words in open – our hearts too speak languages unheard by our inefficient little ears. I speak about the deep rooted, yet highly frail intentions we possess. Our actions need not verily show our intentions for it’s not a human tendency to synchronize them with our behaviors. But definitely having a clear conscience is a satisfaction in true sense and in itself. Dishonest intentions undermine our untainted thoughts and corrupt our mind – leaving us with an unforgiving pain in our soul – seldom understood.

Keep your word; be loyal and committed; make words and actions, like two parallel lines, always run together; detest deception and fraud; condemn cheating. But this is not all it takes to keep you integrity intact – it needs more than sacrifice of the false mask you bear on your face – it needs love for integrity, requires endurance when heated due to friction, it asks for standing for the truth – even if it means giving up you life.

There are many more instances in our lives we happen to see, where in we just say no to the never dying truth; we allow it to happen, not aware that allowing something to happen in our eyes is equal to putting an approval stamp on it. There are many more occasions, I feel, not necessary to be unfolded now, where we shut the door close. It’s time we wake up and comprehend the knowledge we have been provided with – the one that makes us satisfy ourselves with a proud feeling of living with integrity.

Integrity opens the door for fulfillment in our hearts; the very bare necessity for a gratifying existence. Integrity teaches love.

Integrity makes you a person of substance.
 
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