Truth

I was taught early in life to tell the truth.  “Always tell the truth even if it hurts.” 

 It does.  

 Our earliest social interaction with others pressured us to conform to the group.   To be part of the social group is where we learned that the truth isn’t wanted by many of  our peers.

We tell ourselves that we always tell the truth but over the years the world’s lack of concern for what is true wears us down.

I think what hurts is knowing we didn’t tell the truth all of the times we had the chance to.