Lies. Lies.

I have told lies.  About a great number of things, large and small.  To you, to my wife, and to others.   I’ve lied to protect the image that people have of me for their benefit, and I’ve lied for my own benefit.   People lie, almost all of them.   Those that are not afflicted with the spark that makes ‘em lie are lucky.

Lying is cancer.  It’s lethal.  It’s damning.  It’s horrible.    It kills everything good.  Every time an agenda is hidden, we can assume it’s bad.  Transparency in all areas wins.  People that can’t deal with reality shouldn’t be included.  If people get jealous, then they have to realize that their value IS what it is. Pretending things are better than they are has grievously wounded our system and may curtail or eliminate our freedoms. To sustain the image of opulence.  To seem, rather than to be.

We can’t have tolerance for cancer.  I still have greed, I still have some need for mediocrities to like me.  I still feel the fear and the need to lie from time to time.   I’m trying.

There isn’t one lie that’s ‘white.’  There are times that it’s expedient to lie and not mean any harm.  Telling someone something is done when it’s not, for example, isn’t a big deal.  Till you’re caught.   Lying is cancer.

There are a million reasons why we lie, and none of them are pure.  It’s rooted mostly in insecurity.  We want to impress people.  It’s not high school any more.  We don’t need to puff ourselves up to be someone we aren’t.

Every business deal that went south on me–and there are a lot–went south by me either abiding a lie or lying.  About something.  Anything.   When you get close to the truth, lies cover your lies.  You have to lie, and then fix the lie, protect the lie with more lies.  And it’s all seem in lieu of being.

Stupid kickbacks, undisclosed everything cancered the mortgage industry and maybe America.  Lies on lies.   Credulity of the entire system is strained when we work to hide lies.   No organization can sustain excellence unless people are willing to work together, transparently and honestly.  No family can stay together if people are at cross purposes.  Nobody can stand if they are full of shit.

Part of the problem is that we can’t admit that we lie.  Defaulting on your mortgage no longer has social consequences, but lying does.  What hypocrisy. Being ‘caught in a lie,’ is something nobody’s ego can abide.   Nobody wants to have that in them, so the they re-lie.  Things become less plausible, and everything becomes strained.  Without trust, we become short and antagonistic.  And for what?  To get the approbation of losers?

It’s easier to say “enough.”  Enough to the lies.  If you have lied to me–and there are many that have–I forgive you.  Please admit it, I’m not dumb, and I’ve probably gotten it figured out anyway. Now’s a chance for us both to come clean.  If I have lied to you, I ask for, but don’t require forgiveness….i rolled out whatever barrel that I was held over.  And it’s time to move on, shake it off and tell the fucking truth.

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