Benjamin Franklin once remarked, `Half the truth is often a great lie.'
Consider a situation whereby during high school when your mum asked you over dinner what you had been doing at a friend's place after school that day. You would have told her we were studying for exams, but you conveniently left out the part about how long you had actually studied and that, you had in fact spent the rest of the afternoon watching IV.
This got me wondering how much about truthfulness is really about negotiating with our fears. Like the fear of being out for not having anything significant to say, or adding anything substantial to the conversation; the fear of contradicting myself while claiming to be neutral on a stance.
Something for sharing.
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