Always the best policy?
I tend to think so, but it seems like I’m in the minority. I mean, no matter how hard or painful a truth is to accept or to swallow… isn’t it always way worse to be fed a regurgitated pablum-like semblance of truth? As in, what people think you want to hear. As in … lies.
Who are people actually protecting when they lie or are otherwise ‘easygoing’ with the truth? Well, themselves first of all. Aren’t all lies acts of cowardice? I mean sure, the liar might say they were trying to protect you … but in most cases you will find they were just covering their own sorry arse as a particular truth might have meant serious repercussions for them.
The very worst thing about the truth is that it ends up being something possibly very difficult you have to face, whether you want to or not (well, unless you end up lying to yourself). But at least it’s something real that you can work through.
The worst thing about lies is that they never stop. You tell one, you’ll end up having to tell another one to back it up, and then another one, and so on and so forth. And being unreal, there isn’t a damn thing you can do about them.
So you end up having no place to feel secure – no solid bit of ground to put your own two feet – when the people around you are lying to you or about you, often saying it’s ‘for your own good’. Which is just another lie as the only ‘good’ it serves is to make things easier on the liar.
The truth may hurt at times, but it’s actually lies that have the power to destroy.
