Today, I wanted to talk about the importance of honesty throughout life. Recently, a close friend and I got into a large argument because he kept repetitively lying to me and it has literally destructed our friendship beyond repair. It has REALLY opened my eyes to how important being honest with those who are in your life really is, and how NOT being honest can really turn things sour in the blink of an eye. Now I know that in your life, no matter WHO you are, you've lied a few times. You can't go through life without doing it because inevitably the first lies you tell are when you're young and don't know any better.
You're SUPPOSED to learn to not lie as you get older, but I think in reality people just find sneakier and sneakier ways to hide and conceal their lies. Lies also get more advanced as you get older, because the way I see it, the older you get the more things you have to hide. Relationships, cheating, stealing, corruption, illegal doings... the bigger the lies, the more depth and detail and TIME you have to spend perfecting that lie. And chances are, you'll have more than one big lie because once you lie the first time, you have to create more lies, sometimes bigger and sometimes smaller, to cover the initial lie. As a kid, maybe you lied about breaking a plate or taking something from your sibling. That was nothing too big... from an older person's perspective, anyway... because it could be easily forgiven. You didn't need elaborate planning to cover it up, you could just pass the blame to your sibling or pin it on someone else. You wouldn't get in trouble for breaking the item, you got in trouble IF you got caught in the lie because the principle of lying is just wrong. As an adult, you aren't going to cover up about breaking a plate- that's just stupidity. You lie about much larger things (as mentioned above) and these require more planning and hiding because if people found out, you'd be ashamed and embarrassed and would probably lose a lot of people who care about you. This is something my friend is learning the hard way.. he lost 3 friends who are close to him due to the ridiculous lying. There was absolutely no need for it and he still persisted and cause not only me but a few others a lot of pain that was un-needed. Moral of this post? Don't. F**cking. Lie. It saves you a lot of trouble in the long run. Maddie
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