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Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Barbara Jordan Story.
Life Lesson #66 – Credibility is valuable.
“Oh my goodness, look! That lady just dropped a hundred dollar bill, and she doesn’t even know it!” Dana and her two friends were at the convenience store when they saw the whole thing. One of Dana’s friends picked it up, and the other friend said, “Now we can buy anything we want!”
“No,” said Dana, “it’s not right.”
“What’s wrong with you,” said one of the other girls?
“Do you remember when Mrs. McBride talked to us about seeing ourselves in the future, all grown up and everything?” Mrs. McBride was the school principal, and she was always talking about personal vision. “What kind of person do you want to be when you’re an adult? Do you want to be a person who is respected, who has integrity, who is responsible?” She would say that, and a lot more, too. Dana told her friends, “When I’m 30, I don’t want to look back and realize that I was a thief.”
Well, the other girls didn’t really have a response for that—not anything that sounded intelligent, anyway. “Besides,” Dana said, “the lady probably worked hard for that money, and I know I would be hurt if someone took money from me, even if I thought I just lost it.
So, the other two girls now had a choice. They could keep the money, they could drop it back on the floor where they found it, OR they could actually HELP the lady by returning it to her. It only took a couple of seconds for them to realize what the best choice was, and that’s what they did.
– Jim Lord