The accurate legend about lies and truth

People’s relationship with lies and truth is really ambivalent. As a general rule, we all say (or believe) we prefer the truth, but when the truth we receive or share is painful or complicated, a great psychological conflict is generated.

Choosing to lie is, as a general rule, a symptom of distrust in one’s own or others’ ability to deal with the problems it may generate. At other times, choose Falsehood means behaving like an unscrupulous (or very needy) person who wants to make a profit from a certain situation.

In any case, learning to deal with the truth continues to be a pending issue in our societywhich balances a scale that should have truth and honesty as winners.

The legend about lies and truth

There are legends that stand up as beautiful stories that illustrate the psychological reality of our lives. This one that we bring you today is one of them.

“Legend has it that one day truth and lies crossed paths.

“Good morning,” said the lie.

“Good morning,” he answered truthfully.

“Beautiful day,” said the lie.

Then the truth came out to see if it was true. It was.

-Beautiful day – he then said the truth.

“The lake is even more beautiful,” said the lie.

Then the truth looked towards the lake and saw that the lie was telling the truth and nodded. He ran the lie into the water and said:

-The water is even more beautiful. Let’s swim.

The truth touched the water with its fingers and it really was beautiful and it trusted the lie. They both took off their clothes and swam calmly. A while later the lie came out, she dressed in the clothes of truth and left.

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The truth, unable to dress in the clothes of lies, began to walk without clothes and everyone was horrified to see her.. This is how even today people prefer to accept lies disguised as truth and not the naked truth.”

The ambivalence between lies and truth

We link good values with sincerity, because those relationships that are built on pillars of lies end up resembling a fragile and weak house of cards, capable of destroying everything in their collapse. However, despite being aware of this link between the truth and its complex assumption, We constantly seek to turn the tables by telling “half-truths” or pretending realities other than the true one.

The claim that we do “constantly” It is not in vain, since there are studies from the University of Massachusetts that reflect that in our society, on average, a lie is uttered or a person is dishonest every 3 minutes. Other studies provide a more clarifying figure, showing that a week we lie in 35% of the conversations we have.

These figures are, in some ways, discouraging. Frequently We proclaim ourselves as honest people who never lie but, in reality, there is a big lie behind that medal.

We don’t just lie, we lie a lot. On important topics and on trifles. It is easier to do this than to explain and deal with the rawness of the naked truth. We do not have a clear position regarding lies and truth because we do not reflect on it in the appropriate way and, as a consequence, we become intoxicated with small and large lies that weave a fabric from which it is difficult to get out.

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But why do we do this? Because The psychosocial benefit of lying is usually more immediate than that of the truth. Also because the truth is not without risks; Thus, many times, in order to protect our integrity or that of others and/or to take advantage, we tend to fall into temptation: use lies.

However, we must not forget that no matter how pious a lie may be, it still constitutes an obstacle to trust. Let us not forget that one lie is enough for suspicion to throw hundreds of truths into the basket of doubt.making us question even the experiences we thought were most frank.