Our society of liars

There is a bitter sweet story going around the news currently. That of Lance Armstrong, the champion cyclist, as the doper. He now after many years, has admitted to using enhancement drugs to boost his chances of winning at an increasingly competitive sport. I'm so saddened by this and mostly that he had lied to everyone for so many years.“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies" Including my sweet Mr B, who has been a cycle fan for many years and who has stayed healthy over time by doing his favorite thing, cycling. He faithfully watches the Tour De France and other races around the globe. I think he feels that he has known these big names in the cycle world personally. Not really, but he knows them~ but obviously didn't know them. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”George Washington
A few years ago we were living in California and went to catch a glimpse of the riders on the Tour De Cali. It was exciting to say the least to actually see these guys that we have faithfully watched on the big screen winning fame and becoming bigger than life. Now Mr B has found out that almost all of these cyclists were doping and somehow the spark has slightly gone dim for watching these fallen "heroes". “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” But this group of dishonest people are not alone. In fact, we hear about leaders in the US government having extra marital affairs, driving drunk when they proclaimed to be good Christians and had a holier than thou kind of an attitude toward those that did the same. It's a sad sort of affairs when those that somehow have been put on these pedestals by us are on a serious down sliding into the vast pool of liars. They have good company, some of the smartest people we know. Somehow liars to me are the worst kind of examples.“Anything is better than lies and deceit!” Leo Tolstoy
 I know how hard life is and I can't imagine what it is like to be in the shoes of those on the celebrity or government leaders roll book. We live in tumultuous times when everyone is struggling to make ends meet, to overcome their feelings of inadequacy in the whirl wind business arena or just in the kids car pool arena. I have a natural forgiving heart and always want to see the best in others in spite of their troubles and weaknesses. I just don't want to see dishonesty and its prevalence go unannounced. Somehow we need to make it easier to exist and not feel so threatened by not being able to do it all or not being as good as someone else. When I was a young Mom, I struggled to have the smartest kids, the best yard on the block, make the best food, wear fashionable things on an extreme budget, etc, etc. ....blah, blah, blah!
It was exhausting and I wasn't even good at any of those things! But somehow in my old age I have figured out that it just isn't all that important. At the end of the day I still go to bed with Mr. B and wake up looking scary and just try to do the best that I can with the life that has been given to me. “There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.”  Jose Harris
You see it's my opinion that people lie to cover up for their inadequacies and maybe trying to do much more than they are mentally or physically capable of. Where should liars go? I don't know, I guess the same place the rest of us go~ to a forgiving family and hopefully to a forgiving society.
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” Mark Twain
― Mark Twain