The saying goes...honesty is the best policy...that the truth shall set you free...but somehow or another, we are afraid of the truth that we hide it from everybody, from everything. Most of the time, i'd say that you'd have to tell the truth, the whole truth and that there's no such thing as white lies... at times...a very rare occasion in my life...i find that telling the truth did ended with me getting into trouble and most of the time it's unintentional...
Is there a difference between lying and keeping the truth from one's knowledge? Is it a good defence to say that you didn't tell the truth because no one asked you about it or that you were made to keep the truth as a secret? How do you justify what you say, what you meant to say and what you should have said? Is there a need for you to justify your actions? Do you owe it to youself, to justify certain actions that you may have made or omitted to make in your life?
A dear friend confided in me things which ended only to question my actions in the past and though i may have the answers for behaving such ways, i do not think that my dear friend would understand my reasonings... but there's also a voice in me which asked whether there is a need for me to explain mysleft, only for me to resort to keeping quite. Was i right in making such decisons? Do i owe my dear friend such explaination when the truth might hurt or make my friend more confused?
Is there a limit of what i should or should not tell my friends...especially my best friends and my good friends....why do we have different categories for different friends anyways? Recent episodes in my life has made me questioned myself on whether i am a good friend or not? Whilst i've had convinced myself that i am a good friend, i cannot help to think of whether my friends would agree with me or not...
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