Somebody asked me if I would lie for them today.
When I explained that I wouldn’t and why, I also included the following line to serve as a reminder/ forewarning… a line that didn’t come from some picture quote post I saw somewhere on the internet… but from a place of experience learned the hard way. I said:
Telling a lie now moves difficulty into your future; telling the truth now moves difficulty into your past.
Whenever you find yourself on the fence about whether or not you should tell the truth or lie… keep this in mind. And if that’s not enough, remember that the future difficulty compounds vs the now difficulty because of the accumulating guilt, lie remembering, performing/acting, and follow up questioning.
…Sometimes—oftentimes—difficult now is actually the much easier option.