CallaFirestormBW
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Lies are lies. White lies hurt both people, because the individual knows that xhe's not comfortable in that pair of jeans, and hir lover's reassurance doesn't really mean anything, because both of them already know it's a lie... but it -does- lay down a foundation of mistrust. After all, if someone will lie about the little things, what's to say xhe won't lie about the big ones. Looking back over my life, the biggest lies I've ever told have been to myself. I know that I spent a lot of years trying to convince myself that what I knew to be true was really not quite as black-and-white as it really was. I wanted to be in a 'gray' area, because I didn't want to believe that I'd had all the information to make the -right- choice, and still made a poor choice anyway... but I am an impossibly bad liar.. can't even lie to myself with any kind of proficiency. Sometimes, it really SUX, too... but in general, I guess I'm glad that I'm so bad at it, because knowing that I -will- get caught out has kept me from making some pretty bad mistakes that looked like they would get easier if I lied about them. Knowing that I had no chance of getting away with it made me face the truths head-on, and saved my pearly-white ass from serious mess or abysmal embarrassment. An added advantage is that it opened the doors for education in place of polite ignorance.
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*** Said to me recently: "Look, I know you're the "voice of reason"... but dammit, I LIKE being unreasonable!!!!" "Your mind is more interested in the challenge of becoming than the challenge of doing." Jon Benson, Bodybuilder/Trainer
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