Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. – Elizabeth Stanton

Isn’t that the truth? Hehe. For reals though, doesn’t it make so much sense? If we allow ourselves to be liars, even the little white lies (which we even the most of honest of people commit, to include myself), then aren’t we immediately putting ourselves onto a road that slowly but surely becomes rockier and rockier? I will be the first to admit that I am guilty of those little white lies….you know the kind….to save someone embarrassment, to avoid hurting someone we care about, the little white lies that make us feel like we are doing a greater good? Yet, did we save someone with that lie? Did we really? Or did we make what would have been a reality that the person could have dealt with, a fake truth?

When we get comfortable with the little white lies, the bigger and deeper and stronger lies will just end up coming easier. I’ve know some people whose entire lives were lived in lies. It is a sad thing to see. I’ve lived at least one chapter of my life in a complete lie. I never want to have that feeling of losing so many years of my life wasted…..

Anyways, I finish this off hours and hours after I started…had to go to work. For the most part, I am a very honest person. I do not lie to save myself from embarrassment, persecution, harm, what have you. However, I have found myself feeling like I am helping by telling a lie to someone else in order to prevent them from hurting. It is but one of my many faults that I need to work out and I don’t find myself doing it much lately.

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