This is the age of forwards. We get hundreds of forwarded mails and smses and chat-lines and there just is no dearth of unsolicited wisdom. Not all appeal to me. But the gesture of receiving a well intended, or sometimes subtly couched message, helps. Therefore, when i received one of this kind a few days ago from an anonymous source, i thought he or she was responding to my wailings elsewhere in this space on web.
'A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are victimised first.' 'Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.' 'The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you.'.. thus spake the sender in his forwarded missive.
I do not claim to be a personification of honesty - i do have my contributions to the granary of lies and true-lies. But i realise it doesnt pay to be straight-forward these days. Nor does it benefit to be an open book.
Well, if you wonder how relevant is the caption to what is written above, i have to be honest that i liked that line and i lifted it straight from some article (incorrigible me!!!)
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