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Telling the Truth
Telling the truth.
It is true that Lies are so much more interesting and the truth is boring. Well so they say. What do you think, isn’t it so much more creative to tell lies? Let’s say for example, I could tell you I caught the bus to School this morning as usual, and no one would be interested. However if I told I was driven to school on a fire engine and I got to work the sirens, this would be so much more interesting.

So why tell the truth, let’s all create a fantasy world and live in in it. We can all tell lies about ourselves and make everyone believe we are something actually different to our real selves. We could just take stuff that doesn’t belong to us, we could always say the dog ate our homework; we could all stay at home whenever we wanted to and pretend we were sick. Oh and we could let our governments always lie to us and our parents always lie to us even our best friends tell lies to us.

What, I hear you saying that’s not very nice, oh wait someone out there is thinking, well that it’s wrong to lie. Of course it is. We should always tell the truth not only because it is the right thing to do, but we need to know the truth or the uncertainty in our lives would be so big we may never be able to trust anyone.
Telling the truth , Makes believe you are strong, telling the truth makes people believe in you, telling the truth helps us to believe in each other, because if we can’t trust one another then the world is truly a sad place.

In conclusion lies may be interesting in the short term but TRUTH is always

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