Honesty is like being pregnant, you either are or you are not.  My ex-wife’s grandmother was the most honest person I have ever met, and she classified being honest by the above saying, “like being pregnant.”  Honesty could not be simpler than those 12 little words.  There is no middle ground or questioning one’s honesty, and there is no gray area.  Honesty is a sense of self-importance.  People who are not honest, you will find, do not respect who they are or what they have become.  Covering up one’s actions or lying are characteristics of being dishonest.  If you are honest in all that you do, you will feel good about yourself and will never have to think about what is right or wrong. 

Honesty between two people can only be accomplished through communication, and through communication they will be able gain trust and respect.  You tend to respect and trust those you feel are being honest.  Communication and actions are the only ways to achieve honesty.  Being honest means showing integrity in everything one does.  You can get a pretty good sense of one’s honesty simply by communicating with him.  Most people have good intuition about someone’s honesty from the first moment they talk.  Honesty is an element that if lost, will be that much harder to regain, similar to trust. 

I have found that honesty is a direct result of your happiness in life.  For those people who are truly happy in what they do for a living and enjoy who they are as a person, being honest comes naturally.  One may think that honesty should be something you don’t have to think about, but each of us is presented with a multitude of opportunities to break this pattern.  It is those who are content in their life who do not have to think about it.  Honesty is never a question or an event, it is a way of life.  Honesty is an element that can be witnessed simply by observation.  Without hearing a single word, you can determine if someone is honest by watching what they do.