Honesty Is Priceless

By Oggie Medina

I have a story of an airport staffer who finds money of a passenger and he returns to the owner the money and he does not accept a reward from the owner as he humbly says, “I am just doing my work at the airport.”

Isn’t it a nice story of a person who does not accept a reward from a person he helps.

It reminds me recently of two Manila senior high students who returned a cellphone to me and refused to accept a reward. Knowing that they would not accept the reward, I wrote the kindness of two Manila students and published their good deeds in Police Files Tonite and Asian Journal LA, New York and New Jersey, Northern California, San Diego and Las Vegas editions.

This kindness of two Manila students reached to the knowledge of their schools, Manila school superintendent and eventually Manila Mayor Isko Moreno who invited the two said students during a Monday flag ceremony.

The two students were rewarded by Manila Mayor Isko Moreno Domagoso.

Likewise, a cameraman from GMA Network who was covering a presscon at Wilson Lee Flores’ Kamuning Bakery returned recently my senior citizen ID to me. And I was grateful to him and he did not accept a reward for such kind deed.

Years ago, I saw lots of money from the office of Atty. Mike Arroyo, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s hubby, and I got no interest in money that surrounded me then, even if Atty. Arroyo got a bundle of money from a chair and offered it to me. I refused to accept the money as his son Mikey Arroyo came in.

I am also being reminded of my grandparents who returned a huge amount of money to the Del Gallegos family in Paco, Manila at the start of World War II. My grandparents did not expect anything in return.

Honesty is indeed priceless that no amount of money can equal.