In a small village deep in the forests, there lived a girl named Adanma, she wasn't the most beautiful, the smartest, or the tallest, but she had one great attribute: she couldn't lie.
Not like, "oh she's a good girl"
Her mouth refused to say nothing but the truth.
One day, the village chief announced a challenge, His precious golden cup had gone missing and whoever found it would get a reward, the kind of reward that makes people envious of you.
Everyone in the village began searching for the cup, some pointed fingers at each other, others blamed the spirits, but Adanma moved around searching quietly,
eventually she spotted a something odd in the chief's storeroom, the missing cup half buried in in one of the bags of cereals.
Standing there was the storeroom keeper, crying quietly he had also been searching for it, for earlier that day the chief's son asked him to serve him water in his father's cup, Now Adanma had two choices:
Expose him and get all the praises or
Speak the truth in a way that would not destroy him.
She took him to the chief holding the cup
And she said, calm and clean:
"Chief the cup wasn't stolen it was lost, the storekeeper was scared to tell you."
The chief didn't shout, Instead, he hugged the storekeeper, and thanked Adanma for being brave enough to be truthful and gentle.
The village rewarded anyway- not with money but with something better: trust.
From that day, If Adanma said it, everybody believed it. Her words became gold, cleaner than the chief's cup.
And slowly people realized it, being honest doesn't make you righteous, it makes life easier.
Cleaner
Lighter
Like your walking around with nothing weighing down your chest.
