Being honest

Before I share my personal experience of being honest, I’d like to explain the background. The situation is like this: our professor has been warning all of the class that we did terribly on the mid-term exam, there were only three of us got the score higher than 60. I was terrified. I had never got that score on any big exam, and I need high score to apply double major or minor in next semester, which means a lot to a student who is major in philosophy in Taiwan.

Now, let me tell you my story. My story is quite easy to understand. And I think that most of you have faced such thing from time to time. The professor gave back our paper and I got 76. I was so excited and I can’t believe that I was one of the three lucky guys! Unfortunately, soon I found out that the professor have calculated the score wrong. I should have got 67, not 76. It surely was a struggle and miserable time. However, I choose to be honest to myself. I believe that what’s mine is mine. If it does not belong to me, I cannot take it. So I told the professor the truth. I felt much better after doing so. I think being honest to myself, to others is more important than passing an exam, especially when passing an exam in a dishonest way. I’ve done this many times, and I believe I’ll keep doing this in the future. After all, what’s yours is yours; no one can take it away from you.

p.s By the way, the professor gave me bonus of being honest.