How is it that some people have the capacity to lie to other so easily? What do they gain from it? They lie about the little things, they lie about the bigger ones, and all they gain from it is relationships built on falsehoods and self insecurities. But what causes a person to lie? Is it insecurity? Or are they so desperate for attention that they feel the only way to cope is to lie? And why, then, are they upset when they are called out on their lies? When the truth is revealed and everything come into the light, why do they play the victim rather than their rightful role of perpetrator?

When you look at it, what is a lie, exactly? A falsehood told that holds no truth. So what about those people who's lies hold some truth in them? Are they still to be considered a liar? Yes! But if the definition of a lie is a falsehood holding no truth, and someone tells a falsehood holding SOME truth, how are they still to be classified as a liar? The answer is actually simpler than one may think. They are still a liar because the little amount of truth they told was surrounded my non-truths, or lies. That being said, everyone is a liar in their own way because everyone has stretched the truth at one time or another. So how can we look at the world around us and choose to trust anyone in it, knowing that everyone is in some way a liar?

People say it is ridiculous to think this way, but is it really? Is it so ludicrous to see the world as it truly is, not as it pretends to be? And why is it ridiculous to not trust someone completely when you first meet them, given what we know of human nature? Even after we have known someone for years, we still do not fully know them. They still hold the capacity to lie to us and break down all of the bridges we have so carefully constructed over the years with them. And yet, when we are not jumping to forgive them right away, they are offended at our lack of trust in them. Seriously?! You just had the audacity to lie to me, about even a small thing, and you're mad at me?!

But I digress. How is it that someone can become so low and starved for affirmation, that they loose all inhibition and control over themselves? What causes humans to act this way towards one another? How does the guilt not eat them alive? How can they wake up every morning and look at themselves in the mirror? I genuinely don't understand it... If the only way you can get by in life is by lying, then are you're not really living. Think about what you say. Consider whether or not you truly mean it. It you are not able to be honest with yourself, then how can you be honest with anyone else?