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Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

Little bit of a rant...sorry!

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Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
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Lying. Whether you like to admit it or not, you have lied at least once (usually more) in your life and will most likely have lied about hundreds - even thousands - of times by the time you die. I've had my fair share of lies and even though I don't want to and I'm going to try really hard not to, I'll probably have my fair share of more.

What I want to know is, I even ask myself this, why? Why do we feel the need to lie? Because usually what ends up happening is we tell a small lie - a.k.a white lie - and then we end up having to tell another lie to cover that lie, and then another and another and the cycle keeps going. Eventually, we end up believing our own lies and what we don't realize is how much damage it is doing to the people around us.

All trust gets lost because you never know if what the person is saying is true even if they say, "Trust me, I'm telling you the truth," like that's magically going to make you forget all of the lying that they've done. It makes people not want to be around them and then they wonder why they don't have as many friends as they used to.

Nothing good comes from lying, nothing. People get hurt and their whole perspective of you changes. There are only so many times you can "cry wolf" before people are going to stop "coming to the rescue." It's unnecessary and wastes time, yours and everyone else who is in contact with you. I've been lied to way too many times in my life and, to be blunt, I don't have time for it or for the person that is lying to me... especially if you're close to me, please just don't because it's going to hurt to have to cut you out of my life and I really don't want to have to do it, but I will because I'm tired of hurting and getting hurt.

Oh, and getting lied to while you know the truth is the icing on the cake. Those are fun times...note the sarcasm. Those are the times when you end up just letting them tell you the lie because you want to know what they are going to come up with, then when they find out that you knew the whole time that they were lying, you get upset/mad and then they end up getting upset/mad at you because you got mad at them for lying right to your face. Please don't get mad at me for finally calling you out on all your lies, if anything, it's starting to help build accountability which turns into trust which gets broken when you lie, so please don't get mad at me. Don't be afraid to admit that you were lying and that you may need help to overcome it. I'd rather you come out and tell me, "I'm sorry. I lied about _________________. Can you please forgive me?" However, if you get forgiven, that doesn't mean that you can just keep on lying any time you want, you have to work at it and show the person that you really are going to try to change and that they didn't forgive you for nothing.

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