You’re so deceitful you can’t ask for water when you’re thirsty. We could tangle spiders in the webs you weave. — The Lion in Winter

It is amazing to me how hard some will work to maintain an ever-more intricate web of lies going.  Rather than be truthful and face the truth, they have to catalog all of the lies they’ve told, when they told them, and to whom, so that no two threads converge and crash the whole thing.

It’s usually been enlightening to get to know someone who is on the list of “you shouldn’t talk to them” that’s been given to me by a third person.  Usually, both of us end up learning a lot more about how things really are.  Heck, in one instance, I gained an entire adopted family and set of friends when we all figured out that a central figure in all of our lives was not only lying to all of us, but also lying to us about each other.

The truth is hard sometimes, but it is simpler, and the burden of deceit gets heavy very quickly.  Better to face the hard truth than the momentarily easier lie.