To begin with, it is worth understanding that truth and lies in their pure form exist only as absolute concepts, like black and white. We will talk about this in this blog. What we call honesty, openness, or, on the contrary, denial, silence, is our interpretation of some facts, a reaction to events. It depends on the system of values, attitudes, and communication features.


They say that everyone has their own truth. Or - that a person does not lie, but says what he believes in. This means that we all react to the world around us in our own way, forming our own opinions on this or that matter. And we decide whether to express it or not, and in what form. We can decorate, fantasize, invent, wishful thinking, and give compliments. And the humorless saints call it

We are already so accustomed to saying something that is not what we think, that the truth itself is considered indecently naked. And the language in which we usually communicate with each other has been dubbed phatic by psychologists, that is, if translated literally, meaningless. This is when the question “how are you” is not answered in essence, and if something fatal has not happened, they say “fine.”

I conclude the blog by saying that, feeling dependence and inequality of power, a small personality, as we well remember from our own childhood, submits to the pressure of adults. Under pain of condemnation and punishment, she begins to speak the “truth” that they want to hear from her. And then she completely forgets what she really liked or what she really wanted. Let's ask ourselves: “Who needs such victims of forced honesty?”