Telling the Truth

Hi! I am a writer, and I believe in only telling the truth. What's the matter with lying you say? Well we become endowed with the belief that lying is alright in our books. Some people believe that lying is necessary to motivate people, or better yet sometimes even protect someone. However, in the long run that is complete detrimental to us as individuals and friends or even family. Let me tell you why.

As a child, I was precocious and people use to tell me I was smart. But being smart is one thing. As I became more observant of others and personalities when people called me smart it was meant to be really mean and wrong. You see when people used the word smart to describe me, it made me feel awesome because what kid does not want to be considered smart by adults. However, in all actuality as a child what did I know compare to an adult. I did not know how to do calculus or figure out what the buoyancy of an object on what was. Rather I was smart because I knew how to read, or add small numbers like 2+2=4. I was not smart, adults just wanted to compliment me but given that I was not special, in fact I was completely ordinary, there was nothing they could say. So calling me smart made me feel cocky, like I was the smartest thing in the world. But with a little culture shock, I realized as a child that millions of kids like me could do the same thing. I was not smart, I was average. Sure calling a kid average seems mean, and wrong, and all sorts of weird. However, it is the truth and if an adult told me that, I would have done things to make me not average. I would want to be different.

Being different is necessary for the world. What makes each individual different, makes the world a collection of individuals working towards similar goals but with different routes. I am average, I am not special or smart. Rather I am an individual who will not be known by many, but will be known by some. And that is all that really matters.