More of an off-shoot but it made me think…
(I do think honesty is important, btw)
Sometimes we tell lies to justify to ourselves the actions that we take. I went to school with a guy who said dark things happened to him when he was a kid but he later recanted and admitted nothing happened. But it sort of gave him a justification for sort of being fucked up in some many ways. But it helped explain things to people, it was a way of explaining to people that he was fucked up instead of just having to say to people that he was fucked up and then justifying it to people. He would just make up a story. It was a way of telling truth through telling a lie. And the truth was always received as it was meant to be received. Of course there's bad things that happened to him, bad things have happen to everyone. But they don't make us, we make ourselves. And there's of course a lot of genetics involved and what we were given to start with of course but who knows I guess.
