Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Can enduring associations with others be bolstered by being truthful, is a matter that invites mixed reaction. It remains to be seen up to what extent this notion holds relevance.

To start with, being transparent consistently helps build mutual trust and earn one the reputation of being a reliable personality, and they are never questioned for their actions and utterances. Their words are taken as sermons and people tend to follow such individuals without reluctance. Such conditions can easily be observed in instances where leaders of religious groups, communes and even establishments, are able to persuade their followers and subordinates to follow their orders, suggestions and teachings.

Similarly, this virtue fills one with confidence and sustains their relationships more meaningfully and without any apprehensions. To corroborate, where  both the spouses are honest and true to each other, rarely, if ever, hide the facts their marriages and bonds, are likely to survive the test of time, whereas lies can hamper the image of harmony and bonhomie, resulting in legal separation.  

However, some are skeptical of the former opinion and assert that even though uttering the truth, surely, is an invaluable trait  for everlasting ties, it is hard to practice it in every circumstance, especially when dealing with children. Parents have to edit the facts, concoct stories and narrate them to their wards, in order to prevent them from going astray, or teach them critical life lessons, like value of money, education and relevance of keeping good company, to help polish their personalities.

In hindsight, despite truthfulness being a crucial attribute for any relationships, it cannot be deployed in every condition. One has to be prudent/judicious/rational to use the right mixture of both the virtues to attain objectives without harming others.