Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Do you know people who tell you something and you simply don’t count on it. A guy tells you: “Whenever I come to Hanoi, I will call you,” and you thought: “Liar. That never happens.” Or, “Can I borrow this book? I’ll return it in three days.” And you answer: “Sorry, I am doing some work with it now,” because you know that the book will never get returned unless you come to the borrower’s home and knock on his door. Or, “I am a Buddhist”, except that for the last 3 years, he has set foot into a pagoda twice, to eat fasting meals (cơm chay) on two major holidays.

The people whose word can’t be counted on are numerous like aunt armies in a forest.

Do you know someone whose word you can count on 100% of the time. If yes, how many persons like that you know? Two? Or one? If you get three, you are very lucky. If you have ten, you have just won a lottery.

The number of people that we can’t count on 100% with their word is so high that with almost everyone I talk to in a day, I can never count his/her word totally, only somewhere between 1 to 50%, the other 50% is for wrong info, misleading info, false promise or outright lying.

Really ridiculous.

But let’s forget about other people. The real question I want to ask you is that “Are you the person whose word other people can count on 100% of the time?”

Be counted on 100% with your word, at all time.

Be the difference, for God’s sake, for your sake, and for the world’s sake. Please.

Wish we all be honest and exact with our word.

With compassion,

Hoành

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