Please tell me….. do you agree or disagree with this following statement?
Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people.
Telling the truth may be good or positive in some situations but not in all of them. People usually like to talk about the perfect absolute things, while in reality we go for the consideration of lil’ details or exceptions that may not apply to the absolute.
Things should be white or black, but what if they are grey? As far as being honest, people say “It’s good to tell the truth, and It’s bad to lie”. But there are many exceptions people like to create. For example there are no lies, but hat about the soft kind of lies? Those that you have to say to avoid hurting people.
In a relationship, being honest is important thing to build trust. But if being honest implies telling your partner or wife / husband or someone that you did something terrible, in that case that we can always keep silence for the sake of that other person. That is where we can see we can’t respect the phrase “Lying is Bad”.
Telling the truth always implies the risk of letting people down. It implies the fact of being completely honest and tell a friend or a relative “that haircut looks awfull in you”….. or “I don’t like the way you look on that skirt”. But what happens to the person we tell these things to?
He / she will feel bad & hurt, and will not want to hang out with us anymore because we are mean. That’s when you learn to tell small or soft lies. You tell people “You don’t look that bad in that”. Because if we say so, people will be happy and our relationships will be peacefull.
But, my answer is… I agree!
