Honesty

I was surprised with an article I read on the website this morning. A couple had come across a large bag filled with money and handed it into the police. There were comments about the honesty of them in doing so. I didn’t read the article entirely but it appears the money had come off the back of a vehicle during cartage and was lying either on the road or to the side of it. It belonged to the bank and I think was mostly in coins. The reason I am writing this is because this amount of money should of course be handed in, yet even the police seemed surprised that it was.

I would get it if it was a smaller amount, say a $50 dollar note, which one might tend to keep. To have that handed in, I would be surprised – but a large amount in a bag, no, I would expect that.

Yet the fact that the police were surprised, is a reflection of the state of our society these days. Our generation was brought up to know right from wrong and to do the right thing in situations such as this. Is it because people are struggling so much financially that honesty is not such a common trait anymore? Or is it just that the police are used to dealing with criminals who would most likely not hand the large bag of money in?

It is always uplifting when one reads a story about someone who finds the owner of dropped money, from a pensioner, for example. Twenty dollars can mean a lot to some people. That kind of honesty I respect.

I guess it boils down to integrity. I know it is a good feeling to return lost things to the owner. And even this trait is rarer these days. When one sees the previous president of the United States, absolutely lacking in this, one wonders what kind of example this is setting to the younger generations.

As I am writing this, I am just having a little chuckle to myself. I have been doing Louise Hay’s affirmations about abundance, one of them being: I accept abundance in both expected and unexpected ways. I am hearing a little voice in my head, ‘’so you wouldn’t accept money if we threw it to you off the back of a truck?’’ Well, no, I wouldn’t actually. Does that mean I am blocking my abundance, even thinking like this? I am pretty sure I can answer no here too.

Energy is a pretty predictable beast. Do something that’s obviously wrong and one is lowering one’s energy. Doing something right, raises one’s vibration. And of course, there is karma. How does that saying go “karma is a bitch’’.

I am sure the couple who handed in that money have a lot of good karma coming their way. Kudos to them.