Dishonesty is the best policy... Wait what?

Is honesty really the best policy?

                This is one that will forever and always never cease to amaze me. Somehow, and I don’t know how, but honesty became the worst policy. All the sudden we’re so startled by how much the truth can hurt that we think it’s safer just to avoid it in general. We cheat, so we lie about it. We hurt our friends, so we lie about it. We make mistakes, so we lie about it. But why? When will we warm up to the idea that yes the truth hurts and so do most things in life, but the truth hurts less than a figured-out-lie.

                Here’s the second part. If we’re making some kind of decision that we have to lie about, why the hell are we making that decision anyway? It’s like lying has become second nature to us now and it all the sudden opens doors for us to make decisions that we know we shouldn’t.  If you can’t tell the truth about the decision that you are making you probably should not be making it. I’m not talking mistakes, because everybody makes those. Mistakes happens, just own up to it I suppose. In this case I’m talking about those decisions that you go into thinking “as long as nobody finds out…”

                And I totally understand that it’s hard. There’s nothing easy about telling the truth when you know it will hurt. And every single person makes mistakes. So ultimately this is definitely easier said than done. But it needs to be done. We need to stop relying on dishonesty and this false reliance on the truth never being figured out.

                I think the most difficult part with this is that it seems like this is a rule you can bend without breaking.