'So, you lied.’ The accusation from my therapist rendered me speechless. I hadn’t lied! As I’d just explained, all I’d done was tell a friend I wasn’t upset with her for cancelling on me when, secretly, I was. But that didn’t make me a liar. I was just… tweaking the truth so I wouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. Everybody does that.
‘That is lying,’ he said, a bit more gently. ‘It’s dishonesty. You’re denying that person the truth — and yourself.’
His words shook me. I’d never thought of myself as dishonest. Yet I began to think of all those times when I hadn’t been truthful, big and small. In the past few days alone, I’d told a friend I loved her outfit when I didn’t, pretended I was busy with work when my parents rang and told a colleague how great their latest project was when I hadn’t actually read it.
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