Spontaneous lying is casual crime🔗

A small story:

There were once two naughty brothers who were uncontrollable and troubled everyone in their village. The whole village decided that they were tired of the brothers and won't be able to handle the hell created by them anymore. The villagers went and complained to their parents. The parents, not knowing what to do, went to the village priest. The priest decided to take the responsibility and said, 'Don't worry, I will reform them.'

So the priest first called the younger brother and started talking to him. He asked, 'My son, have you seen God?'

The child started crying and ran away as fast as he could. He found his brother and told him that they should quickly hide themselves. So both of them ran away and hid themselves in a hut outside the village.

The younger brother said to the older one, 'We are really in trouble!'

The older brother asked, 'Why?'

The younger brother replied, 'We made a big mistake by stealing money and food from the houses in our village! Now GOD is missing, and the priest was asking me where He is!'

Listen: we are in the same space as these children!

First we keep saying, 'Not me, not me', whenever we are questioned about something. Then comes a point when that becomes your response to every life situation. Even when you don't need to lie, you blurt out a lie without even thinking!

Just with this one pattern, you lose the very trust that forms the basis of any relationship.