How to stop lying
After years of thought and observations, I believe that there is a single cause of why most people lie. We tell our kids how important it is to tell the truth yet in certain situation we find ourselves circumventing that truth for one particular reason. What is that reason you may ask, it’s fear. Now let’s not imply or pretend that I am some sort of expert in this because I am not. I am just a regular person with time enough on my hands to try and figure out why we do what we do. I say lying is caused by fear because when you think about the times that you lied, think about the truth of why you lied. I broke a window in the house when I was growing up and when asked who did it, my response was “I think I did”. Now we all know that this was a lie because I was the only one in that room and I clearly know that I broke that window but I was afraid that my mother would yell or discipline me and I gave her as much of the truth as I could. I g...