Why it's hard to TELL the TRUTH?

That's not true ! I never feel the need to lie or be a liar . I am confident in my words and age to take it or leave it. But would never stand for someone close constantly telling me lies.This I would take as a insult to my intelligence. Life is hard enough without the burden of remembering every word you say

Yeah, you're right. It's really hard to tell the truth when you know that the person would truly be hurt of the truth. We're would be hurting the person, without realizing that we're prolonging the pain of the person, 'cause later on the truth will be reveal to him/her no matter how hard we hide. For me it's kinda selfish, but that's the reality of human nature. Anyway thank you for sharing with us ivygrey and have a great day!

Yeah, you're right StarBright. I just hope that there's a lot of people who have the same thought and beliefs like you. It's kinda rare nowadays. Sometimes is it easier to said than done, as I have read on an article it said " It's easier to think and believe on things when you put it into writing, than when you're actually doing anything or living with it." Thank you for sharing with us and have a great day!

Yeah, you're right my friend, but there's a lot of different kind of lies. Some were too shallow, but still it's a lie. Like when a friend asked if she looks pretty on her dress, and you know that she easily get hurt if you tell the truth and so you tell white lies. Most of the time we tell lies, we simply hardly noticed it because it's not huge and we get used on it. Like when your boyfriend asked you where are you exactly and even though you're not doing wrong but you know when you tell the truth he would not like it. So you tell a lie. So many simple situations that we don't tell the truth and simply tell a lie.

Archie0, I am sorry to disagree with you on a few counts here. Does it mean that we will need to take the short way out by deceiving others when telling the truth is hard to do? You may think that telling a lie as being effortless, but let's not forget that premeditating any act of deceit is never easy. Also, due to the shortcomings of deceits it will be even harder to hide the truth from surfacing. Ever consider the setbacks and consequences when the truth finally surfaces and explodes right in front of our face? I feel that every human has a thing called conscience and it is this very conscience that is telling us what is right or wrong about things. It is also the very consideration where it will make us feel ridden with guilt and regrets. As Stephen Covey once said: “Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom....” Being truthful and deceitful are both equally hard, yet we always have a choice of things, so why not choose that which is honest and truthful?

Because the truth is often hard to remember and also very complicated. Very shortly after we create a memory, the details fade, and you will only remember the important stuff, then you make things up to fill the gaps. In one study, researchers found that not one conversation btw 2 people contained only honest communication. Often when we decieve people it is spontanious, unplanned and guilt free. This is due to what is called the Spinozan hypothesis: when we get new information we automatically register it as true, most of us recognize this pattern in others, and take advantage of it.