Do we know the value?

I find it more and more frustrating when I listen to what it is that we consider being of value. It seems that so often the things that I have considered to be of value all my life seems less and less so in modern society. When we listen to politicians and those in places of influence it seems that being economical with the truth is the order of the day. I have always and hope I always will found honesty to be one of the most valuable commodity there is. yet time after time I hear all this talk of fake news and such. What is fake news? Lies simply as that. 

We now even have a part of the BBC website devoted to helping young people to judge what is true and what is false. Sadly I often find that even here there is much to be desired in the honesty stakes. 

We seem to live in an age where we know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

A young girl, about 8 years old, mentioned that her mother's birthday was soon approaching. When asked if she was going to make a birthday card on her father's computer. She said, "No. If you make one on the computer they don't keep it on the refrigerator as long as when you make one yourself."

here at least was somebody who seemed to grasp the value of the things in life that matter.

I will never forget the true story I read about a man and his old family Bible.

It was the story of a man who loved old books. He met an acquaintance who had just thrown away a Bible that had been stored in the attic of his ancestral home for generations. 

"I couldn't read it," the friend explained. "Somebody named Guten-something had printed it." 

"Not Gutenberg!" the book lover exclaimed in horror. "That Bible was one of the first books ever printed. Why a copy just sold for over two million dollars!

" His friend was unimpressed. "Mine wouldn't have brought a dollar. Some fellow named Martin Luther had scribbled all over it in German." 

It seems more and more important in this day and age of shallow thinking and the cult of personalities that we stop and have a little rethink about just what it is that is of value. 

There seems nothing more saddening than the daily hurt and harm caused by those who more and more make statements they know to be untrue, but they fit the message they wish to give and honesty pays the price. 

it is the case that if you have a friend you can rely on and know that when they speak they do so with a genuine to be true and honest those are friends well worthy of holding on to. 

We seem to live in shallow times where elections and all sorts are won and lost on the back of lies and nobody seems to care.

Have a friend filled day and may your friends be like the many I have, honest and true.