You Are Only As Good As Your Word

You Are Only As Good As Your Word

I try to tell my kids all the time that you are only as good as your word. That is who you are and it precedes you all of your life. I never tell my girls I will do something, I always say we'll see. This way if I can't do it, I didn't promise and then not deliver. My mom taught me that, she would always say we'll see.

I remember my mom telling me stories about her father who would promise her he would be there to pick her up. She would sit by the window all day not moving, afraid that she would miss him. Sometimes she would sit there until it got dark out,  or until her grandmother would have to drag her away crying to go to sleep because he never showed up.

As she told me this story some 60 years later, she cried because it still hurt her so much. All of the broken promises he made to her and never kept. 60 years of hurt and pain all because you couldn't keep your word.

When I was married my sister in law would call and tell me to tell my girls she was coming to get them. I would get them ready and they too would sit by the windows waiting. The first time she didn't show I let it go, as things happen sometimes. The second time she called and told me to tell my girls she was coming, I told her that I would be telling them when she was standing at the front door.

I would never put my girls through the hurt and pain my mother went through, and as sure as I was breathing no one else was going to do that to them.

I always ask people how do you want people to view you? I know a few friends that although they have big hearts, they are the biggest bullshiters I ever meet.

You never know what is true and what is a lie. They become like the boy who cried wolf, is he telling the truth or isn't he?

I am an adult and if you lie to me, I know it will hurt when I find out but we have all been around the block and it has happened to all of  us before. When you lie to a child, especially my child, you need to check yourself as I will come out fighting. 

You are breaking a child's innocence, they have big hearts, and they see and believe the good in people. They are not jaded, they open up their hearts and take you in. To do that to a child, you change who they are and how they view the world.

My daughter said something to someone the other day that was so profound..

 "With that being said, I hope you learned a lot because I'm 17 and you're 51. I will never be a liar and I learned that within half of your existence" 

I am glad that I have led by example and that she has learned that you are your word and how truly important that is. 

So today my friends remember that your word is who you are. Your word is the only thing you have and you must guard it like a diamond. Especially when it comes to a child because you are only as good as your word.

"Be the change you want to see"

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