A bold statement to make, perhaps, but think about the times you've spared someone's feelings by not telling them the whole truth, or deliberately mislead someone by not being honest, or even lied to ourselves to make ourselves feel better. We've all done it. I've done it. Politicians and lawyers do it for a living, parents do it to protect their children, teenagers do it as an act of rebellion.
I've done a lot of it in my past. So why does it hurt and anger me so much when others lie to me? Hypocrite, much? Yes, but I can't change the way it makes me feel. It makes me feel unclean, uncertain and crushed. More so when it's a friend who has done the misleading.
Telling the truth is always the better option, even when that truth causes heartache and sadness. I learned that the hard way :(
In other news, my brother popped into my head the other night with a suddenness which took me completely off-guard. I was overwhelmed with missing him, so much so that it almost brought me to my knees. Now, I know that some of that will be medication based and I know that the person I miss doesn't really exist anymore but I couldn't stop thinking about the days when he was my closest friend and confidant.
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