It is a poor idea to lie to yourself!

Although it is an extremely poor idea to lie to yourself (nevermind lying to others aswell), but isn't it something that we do all the time anyway?  Everybody lies.  No matter what you say, not one person can say that they have never told a lie to someone, or even to themselves.

You might regularly tell yourself: "I don't care what people think of me" or "I don't care that he's with someone else" or, perhaps one of the best ones, "This one chocolate wont be that bad for me..."  All of these are lies that we try to convince ourselves of.  They are not true.  And by lying to ourselves, we create a false sense of security which could be detrimental to us in the long-run.


The main reason we lie to ourselves is to make us feel better about a bad situation.  When we cannot face the negative parts of our lives, we try to make them more tolerable.  Suffice to say that if we begin to feel comfortable with lying to ourselves, it opens up many other doors for us to start lying to others too.  And once it starts to get out of hand, we become compulsive liers and even start believing our own lies.  It is a vicious, never-ending cycle that we, ourselves, have created.



My advice would be to just face the facts.  Nobody's life is filled with sunshine and roses - we all are subjected to many troublesome times during our lives.  It is how we handle these times that moulds us into the person we are.  By facing our negativity, we can begin to accept it and try to change it to positive ways instead of misleading ourselves.  It is a poor idea to lie to yourself as the only person getting hurt in the process is YOU!