Why we lie...

I found this in a book I'm reading. It doesn't tell you who or where it's from. I found it to be pretty inspiring. A little poke in the head, if you will?





Why We Lie

Everyone lies a little bit, and that’s no lie.

It may be a little white lie told to spare someone’s feelings, but everyone
does it. We are all guilty. We start lying at a young age (around four or five)
to finagle something we want or to get out of trouble.

We lie both to please people and to appease them. We lie to strengthen
relationships and to maintain them. We lie to make ourselves feel better
about lying to someone else.

However, oftentimes the best lies (meaning the ones that are most believable
to other people) are the lies we tell ourselves.

If we can hide the truth from ourselves, it’s so much easier to cloak it
from others. Why do we lie? Generally speaking, because we can get away
with it.