Truth, Pride, and the Wisdom of Lies

Truth is the most interesting thing ever. It makes things right yet it makes things so wrong. The only difference between what it does is who is telling it. The truth is what you make of it. The truth changes, it moves with what each new person changes about it. It starts simple, we make a comment, one that is not true, whether we meant it to be that way or not. It spreads until everyone knows what you said, and then it is true. People believe your comment or insult or whatever it was and is and it's now the truth. You may not want it to be but it is, it isn't a lie yet it's the truth it's what people believe.

Now you have a choice, you can own up to your false truth take responsibility for your actions and clear your name. But we don't, we hide behind our "truth" we didn't mean it we really didn't but we don't have the stones to admit it. That's were we go wrong, the truth always catches up with you and when it finds you, all hell upon you. The truth gets you and all of a sudden your stuck with everyone wondering why you would lie to them. The truth is a $@%#& when it catches you. Everything good you ever did is erased in one moment, the moment your pride stopped you from taking responsibility. Now you are haunted for the rest of you life by what a truth has become.

The truth is unbeatable, it's a rolling boulder coming for you and your little wall that is your pride. Pride makes us the one thing we try not to become, a lying, over-confident, self-centered pig. That Boulder crushes your little wall of pride and you are exposed to what you have become. And when people see what you have become the truth makes you what you say. Now stop and think, that is the wisdom of lies. When your truth becomes a lie, whether someone else finds you out or you own up to it, you can learn something from it. That lie can teach you how be a better person you just have to look at it in a better light. What you did is wrong, and now you have to fix it. Don't say sorry, sorry is bull. You may mean it, but it doesn't matter it doesn't change anything. You have to make an effort. You have to change what you did and repair the damage you caused. You have to LEARN.

That's the wisdom of all lies, that behind it is something that can change you. The thing is you have to look for it, you have to make a conscious effort to find it. You can't be lazy and sit around and hope, hope is nothing without action, you have to work for change. So next time you make a truth or change a truth, or you reveal the truth. Look at what happened and LEARN from your mistakes, and try not to make them again.

Just Think About It,
Tufte