Eight Great Things to Tell The Truth

Eight Great Things to Tell The Truth

-Barbara A. Lewis

1. Telling the truth lets everyone know what really happened. There's less chance of misunderstanding,confusion,or conflict.
2. Telling the truth protects innocents people from being blamed or punished.
3. Telling the truth allows everyone to learn from what happened.
4. You usually get into less trouble for telling the truth other than for lying(and getting caught).
5. Other people trust you more when you tell the truth.
6. You don’t have to tell(and remember)more lies to keep your story straight.
7. You gain a reputation for being truthful - a trait most people value.
8. Telling the truth helps you to feel secure and peaceful inside.

This quote means that you shouldn't lie because it always comes back to you. Like an example could be you sneak out of your house to go to a party, you accidentally fall asleep at your friend's party, and it's 7 in the morning you realized your mom knew about the party plus she always says “good morning” when she wakes up so you run home as fast as your little legs can take you. You finally get home and you open the door first you see no one and then you go to the stairs and you mom suddenly pops up. She says “where have you been?” the girl thinks “what if i tell her i went to study?” or “what if i just tell her the truth?” the girl ends up with the lie and her mom then says “who did you study with?” you reply “umm jenna” your mom says “what subject?” you say “biology” your mom says “fine, okay” she calls jenna's mom to see if it's true and jenna's mom tells the girls mom everything that happened and that whole big lie could've been avoided if she would've said the truth.