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Top Essays USB Drive
This USB drive contains 100 of the top This I Believe audio broadcasts of the last ten years, plus some favorites from Edward R. Murrow's radio series of the 1950s. It's perfect for personal or classroom use! Click here to learn more.
I believe telling the truth is important for many reasons. One of them is trying to keep up with the lies only gets you into trouble. It takes a lot of energy to keep up the front of lies. Once an untruth is told then other untruths become easier and easier to tell. Truth sets up trust. Once a trust is broken it is hard to get it back. The lack of trust sets up doubt and many questions.
Reasons to tell an untruth are many but a few are:
I don’t want to let someone down
I am scared of what will happen if I tell the truth
I feel frightened of telling the truth
I am embarrassed by the truth
I wish the lie was true
I wish I could change what I did
We hide the truth partly because we don’t want to hurt others.Most of the time we hide the truth because we don’t want to get into trouble.
When I was younger I would always find where my sister would hide her Snicker bars in the freezer. The urge to eat them was more than I could bear. She would ask who ate them I would say no not me. As time went by it was easier to tell the lie over and over again. As it would turn out I would eventually get caught and the truth would come out and I would be in trouble. I should have told the truth the first time. Needless to say, whether I do it or not, I get accused of taking the candy bars or the last brownie or open the bag of candy.
