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RE: The Greatest Gift You Can Give and Receive: Truth
Well everyone knows it !!!
Everyone knows that one should not lie. Everyone knows that truth is the base of any relationship but people still lie. Why do you think they do so?
Because of some constraint, some compulsion, some helplessness. I think telling people not to lie is not the solution because lying is not the problem. The problem is something else. We should find the root cause of every problem. Only then can we find a solution to it.
For example - a son lies to their parents because they might be TOO STRICT, they might be people who overreact. In this case, the problem is not the son's lying, but failure of his parents to understand their child !!
I mentioned how the truth can hurt and can be uncomfortable, but it goes both ways to speak it and receive it. Just because someone doesn't like to hear it and reacts negatively, doesn't mean we should lie. The child or an adult can speak and get negative reactions from people, that doesn't justify lying. The root is the lack of care for truth, whereby people don't openly receive people speaking it and punish them for it. The problem of lying is still in the agent who does it, no matter the relationship of those who react negatively.
Well i think thats a theoretical thing to say !!
Because I am not a liar but I HAVE TO lie at times when I know people won't understand the truth and speaking truth, instead of lie would harm our relationship. What should one do in that situation? When telling the truth would put you in trouble but lying would save you ?