My passion may not be considered a normal kind of passion, with most people probably saying theirs is music, dancing or even horse riding. I went through phases of having hobbies that could be considered 'my passions', however after a while they all fizzled out. Writing, however has always stayed a passion of mine, but putting that in writing seems a little silly.
I've recently become very passionate about honesty due to many different things, one of them being that i have been living with a compulsive liar. Trying to understand why people lie like this only confuses me further, I could understand them lying for the sake of someone's feelings, but saying "our kitchen has been painted", before we all came back for christmas just didn't seem worthy of lying. I guess people lie for all sorts of reasons, because they feel uncomfortable with themselves or maybe because they're hiding something.
I feel that honesty is necessary for so many reasons, most normal relationships whether they are a friendship or something more rely mainly on trust. If someone cannot be trustworthy they become unreliable in my eyes, and why does anybody want to have to sit and listen to someone all the while wondering which bits of the conversation are true and which aren't? \
I've had a talk with someone who seems to lie uncontrollably, in order to understand why they are the way they are. What they said was probably expected, they explained how they wanted to impress everyone and make them like them. This to me sounded like the reason you'd tell playground lies at primary school: '"I've got a zoo in my back garden", or "my dad's a super-hero". Sometimes i worry that someone who's still telling lies as farfetched as this now must be at least a little bit crazy.
I love the film 'The Invention Of Lying', as although most of what they say is extremely harsh to one another they don't seem phased by it, and at least they know what everyone's really thinking.
At the end i suppose it comes down to who will be the better person, if you can't forgive a lie are you worse off than the liar themselves, for being so unforgiving or is it your right to decide that they've lost all credibility in what they say.
