maybe...

[4woody]

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

OSCAR WILDE

[Hidden]

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~

[4woody in reply to Hidden]

it seems truth can be so very simple... sometimes...

[Hidden in reply to 4woody]

There have been times, personally, when the truth hurt far too much and a lie would have been kinder and therefore, much easier to live with.

[4woody in reply to Hidden]

easier now... maybe. would that have to do with the choice made in the presence of the truth? couldn’t there be a chosen response that would ameliorate the initial pain, making it more profitable than painful, especially moving forward? Maybe?

[Hidden in reply to 4woody]

Hmmm?

No...

... a lie would have been better, not a bending of the truth, even,

to ease the pain.

Too much pain.

How does that song go....Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies.....