Do you remember the last time you told a lie? There are countless motivations behind lying. Some people lie to protect. Others, to manipulate. Is there an instance where lying is the right thing to do?
In this video, youโll hear the story of two hospital patients. One is blind while the other is severely ill. The two patients spend their day with the severely ill patient describing to the blind patient the encounters that occur outside their room window. They especially have a great time chuckling over a man who has trouble proposing to his girlfriend multiple outside their window.
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One day, the severely ill patient is taken into the operating room for a procedure. He doesnโt make it. When a nurse comes in with the bad news, the blind patient asks her whatโs going on outside the window. The nurseโs response and the blind patientโs reaction? Definitely unexpected.
Sometimes we donโt know why people lie to us, but you have to realize that lying can be an effective way of showing empathy and compassion. Itโs hard to believe, but then again, actions are always difficult to understand at the surface.
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Man collects pennies for 45 yrs leaving bank tellers at a loss for words when he arrives to cash in
Over the course of 45 years he never accepted a penny from anyone. Not family, friends, no one but he only collected oneโs he managed to get himself.
Sasha Alonzo
03.30.23
Weโve all collected something at one point or another in our lives.
If you collected all the pennies you could find for an entire month, how many do you think youโd have?
What about if you collected pennies for an entire year?
Now, consider how much money you would have if you collected pennies for 45 years.
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This man collected pennies for 45 years and blew his bank tellers away when he brought them in.
Anders said that he began seeing pennies as a reminder to stop and say a prayer.
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โIf I would see a penny when Iโm gassing up, on the ground, or in a store, it would be a reminder to stop right there and say a prayer,โ Anders said to ABC News. โI never failed to do that. Thatโs why they had so much value to me.โ
At no point during all of his penny-collecting did Anders accept coins as a gift from anyone else.
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โBut I never allowed anyone, not even my wife nor children, to give me pennies without being compensated,โ he continued. โI wanted the inner satisfaction that God and I acquired this collection.โ
โI became convinced that spotting a lost or dropped penny was an additional God-given incentive reminding me to always be thankful. There have been days where I failed to pray and more often than not, a lost or dropped penny would show up to remind me.โ
Anders filled big water jugs with the coins he collected.
He said at one point his goal was to fill up 5 giant water jugs but once he had done that, he felt the urge to keep going.
He needed to go to the bank and turn them in or else heโd never do it.
At the time he finally went to the bank, he had filled 15 5-gallon jugs.
โI wanted to fill five five-gallon water jugs. That was the goal, but I couldnโt stop. โฆ If I hadnโt turned them in yesterday, I was not going to stop.โ
In addition to the intrinsic value Anders found in collecting the pennies, they also added up to have significant financial value.
After finding out his homeownerโs insurance policy wouldnโt cover his collection, he called the Origin Bank in Ruston, Louisiana, where he had been a customer for years.
Anders let them know he would be coming in with a large number of pennies.
They were happy to help but it was quite the undertaking.
โWe value his business, as we do all of our customers,โ said the bankโs Vice President Jennie Cole. โBut if we can help Anders with his endeavors, we are happy to do so.โ
