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I really try hard not to lie. Joseph Conrad, one of the greatest writers of all time, encapsulated my beleifs on lying when he said that there was something about liying that was like death (he puts it way more eloquently than I). People who lie, and people who steal wantonly for thier own ends really scare me, cause thier moral compass is way off in my belief.
I had a good friend who is perhaps one of the most intelligent people i have ever met. He was a pathological liar. He'd lie about the smallest things so well. (He's an associate lecturer at a university close by and he's only mid 20s). When he lied to me about having a brain tumor i believed him. Soon after though, i began to doubt, and one day confronted him. That was 2 years ago, and i havent seen him since.
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'And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass'
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