This I Believe

I believe in telling the truth. If you don’t tell the truth what else do have. I think that telling the truth is the core of all happiness. I believe that I live and tell the truth. Well I at least try to anyway. I have looked back on things I have done and whether or not if I should’ve told the truth about them or not, and what the consequences would’ve been if I had told the truth.

In the past my sister would get into trouble because she lied about something she did. Then the lie finally caught up with her and someone found out that she had lied. To get caught in a lie is not a good thing. Then eventually she learned from her mistakes and didn’t lie anymore and flat out told the truth. When she did that she still got into trouble just not as much trouble if she would’ve lied about it.

My parents and the Bible have always taught me to tell the truth and also to live the truth, no matter what the consequences. In the long run it’s better to tell the truth than to lie about the truth. I feel that the lie I told will always comeback to haunt me. Plus, who really wants bad karma?

On the contrary, an incident that happened to me when I was about eight or nine, around the summer time, was that I climbed on top of the neighbor’s RV and got caught. This little nasty boy was saying if I didn’t get up on top of the RV then he would bite me, and I mean this kid is nasty. I was so scared I was going to get caught. So I went up on top of the RV and the kid’s mother came out and saw me up there. She yelled at me and then I went home crying. Then of course my mom asked me what was wrong, and of course I said nothing just like the typical girl would do if she had done something wrong. She said all right and walked away. The incident all happened about noontime. A little later the mother of the nasty little boy came over to our house and told my mom and dad everything. I was in big trouble. My dad blew up at me he was mad. I got the biggest spanking of my life. It was all because I didn’t tell the truth. I can say right now that if I would have told the truth that I probably would’ve gotten in a lot less trouble.

So now consequently, of that incident I will always tell the truth, and live the truth. After something like that I definitely don’t want to go through anything like that again, as long as I live. So I believe in telling the truth no matter what the circumstances or consequences. The truth is what I believe.