On barns with binoculars...

Hi Becky!

Thanks, that was a great educational story.... It's lesson is very true.

I agree with you that people who trust others, also tend to be trusted....

I've also noticed the "opposite" -- people who are themselves untrustworthy, also tend to be untrustworthy of others.

Anyhow, it's a great piece of wisdom! We do reciprocate on trust....

Being untrustworthy can limit a person's success. Let me explain.

There are those who think the only way to get ahead is by taking advantage of others, by "ripping them off" in some way. As we know, there are (sadly) people like that around.... I pity them more than anything else.

When you look at them more closely, you'll find that these people believe that this is the "only" way they can get ahead. And there lies the seeds of their own failure....

Because of this, they are always hiding from the law to some degree. However, the most successful people I know of have good reputations, and provide good services or products to people. However, these "scamming"-type people won't do that, since they have a strange belief that if they do, they won't succeed....

If anyone achieves a certain amount of success, they will eventually get noticed. That means the law will notice them too.... If they are doing "scammy" things and they are "successful", the law will start to keep an eye out on them....

Therefore, these people know they can't be "too" successful, since otherwise they'll get noticed for their scammy dealings. So they tend to "self-sabotage" their success....

There are a few of these "scammers" who do become "big" successes, at least for a while. However, these people pretty much always end up in jail sooner or later.

That's why to become a big success, a person pretty much always has to be doing things honestly and legally. Otherwise, if a person is always scared of getting "caught", they will end up sabotaging their own success.

So, as they say, crime does not pay! Such people may never be caught, but if not, it's most likely because they have sabotaged their own success anyhow....

And so the saying is true, honesty is the best policy (and trustworthiness too).

Thank you Becky for sharing that great educational story! :)

- Dien