The truth hurts
sometimes. But “Honesty is the best
policy,” even if it feels more convenient to lie, you might become very
accustomed to it and do it more often.
Lying is a very bad habit that is hard to break. If you lie a lot, eventually all the people
that trust you will no longer trust you.
It may be fun and convenient, but then later on, no one will no longer
believe you. Lying like that is like the
story “The Boy who cried wolf” every time the shepherd boy, who watched sheep,
cried ‘wolf!’ the villagers would all gather to help him only to find out it
was only a joke. And when there really
was a wolf, no one believed the boy and the wolf ate the sheep. The moral of the story is that if you keep
lying, nobody will no longer believe you.
Sometimes though,
you might want to lie to someone because it might hurt him or her. This of course, might make you want to lie;
since you don’t want to upset them and just want them to be happy. But eventually, they might find out and they
might become even more hurt and embarrassed because they didn’t know until
later on. It is usually better if you
tell them the truth now, then later because, to me, I think it is better to
know something right away instead of later.
Because if you lied and they find out about the truth later on, it might
make the person feel worse since they weren’t told the truth in the first
place.
The only time lie
is probably okay is if it’s not really serious.
Things like “Be good or Santa will give you coal,” or “The tooth fairy
will give you a quarter under your pillow.”
These kinds of lies are innocent and just made for fun. At first, kids would believe it, then later
on they would sooner or later grow out of it.
They know it was an innocent lie, and it was fun believing in it and
they too would probably tell it to their kids later on.
I believe that
truth is a virtue that people must always uphold. Telling the truth may hurt, but lying hurts
much more.
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