The Lies Of The Unwise

If a lie is told often enough, with conviction and enthusiasm, there is a very good chance that it may be accepted as truth.

The result of believing that something wrong is something right sits between the two extremes of minor confusion and ultimate disaster.

In short, we have the responsibility to ourselves to act with sincerity and honesty. All too often, though, we fall short of those targets. We excuse our own shortcomings. Acceptance, however, has a cumulative effect. The more we rely on exaggeration and mistruth the simpler it becomes. The path of least resistance may be easier and, at some level, inviting and interesting. But ultimately it results in disappointment.

At their most damaging level the lies we tell ourselves are the most destructive. We may be able to fool some of the people some of the time but we know our own truth and we know when we have stepped across the line of self-deception.

It is possible to live with a lie…even to build an entire existence on attitudes and opinions that we know to be untrue. Living on the precipice of discovery can be debilitating. And our lives can become so entangled in falsity that it becomes difficult to see a way out.

We can be the creators of much of our own mental distress by refusing to be true to ourselves.

It’s only by getting to know the person we are that we can set or improve our own standards.

If we look inside and fail to appreciate or understand what we find we have one of two choices…ignore or improve.

The choice is our and ours alone. The challenge is unable to be accepted by an outside party.

Whichever path we choose we must understand that we will have consequences to face.