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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I know this isn\u2019t my normal posting day but there has been something on my mind lately that I just had to share with you. Truth? What value does it hold for you? For me truth is high up there on the scale. Yet it is almost a double standard. We want justice and truth to rise up to the top but we will let our friends get by with a lie to show how great a friend we are. \u00a0This warped sense of friendship has even caused people to take blame for a crime to keep their multiple offender friend out of jail. \u00a0Are we really doing them any favors? \u00a0The more times we do this the lies tend to snowball and soon we are doing it so often that it is really hard to see where the truth is anymore.\u00a0At what point should they actually be forced to learn a lesson?<\/p>\n
When you cover for a friend, you accept their character flaws as your own. \u00a0You are now no more trustworthy than them. \u00a0Not to mention the anxiety I have felt when covering for friends is sheer agony. Your word is no better than theirs. \u00a0I myself have had to learn the lesson that it is better to just fess up to what I did, take the punishment and then modify my behavior so that I don\u2019t have to suffer that humiliation again. \u00a0I actually look back on those times as huge moments in the building of my character. \u00a0I have come to learn that no lie, even those pesky \u201clittle white lies\u201d are simply not worth it.\u00a0When the truth rises to the top and trust me it will, what side do you want to be on? \u00a0Do you want to be known for covering up or truth baring.<\/p>\n
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I know this isn\u2019t my normal posting day but there has been something on my mind lately that I just had to share with you. Truth? What value does it hold for you? For me truth is high up there on the scale. Yet it is almost a double standard. We want justice and truth to rise up to the top but we will let our friends get by with a lie to show how great a friend we are. \u00a0This warped sense of friendship has even caused people to take blame for a crime to keep their multiple offender friend out of jail. \u00a0Are we really doing them any favors? \u00a0The more times we do this the lies tend to snowball and soon we are doing it so often that it is really hard to see where the truth is anymore.\u00a0At what point should they actually be forced to learn a lesson? When you cover for a friend, you accept their character flaws as your own. \u00a0You are now no more trustworthy than them. \u00a0Not to mention the anxiety I have felt when covering for friends is sheer agony. Your word is no better than theirs. \u00a0I myself have had to learn the lesson that it is better to just fess up to what I did, take the punishment and then modify my behavior so that I don\u2019t have to suffer that humiliation again. \u00a0I actually look back on those times as huge moments in the building of my character. \u00a0I have come to learn that no lie, even those pesky \u201clittle white lies\u201d are simply not worth it.\u00a0When the truth rises to the top and trust me it will, what side do you want to be on? \u00a0Do you want to be known for covering up or truth baring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[80],"tags":[82,83,85,81,84],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Y6g5-6k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":243,"url":"https:\/\/sefosterauthor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/18\/fear-is-a-liar\/monday-musings\/sefoster\/","url_meta":{"origin":392,"position":0},"title":"Fear is a Liar","author":"sefoster","date":"June 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost anyone who knows me is well aware that music holds a very special place in my life. 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