Something happens when you intentionally get someone to believe a lie. (A lie is something that is untrue in a certain situation.)

Take, for example, a little white one. "Do you think this dress looks good on me?" "Yes." In the instant she absorbed the yes, it became true; she began living in a world where you like how that dress looks on her. You are not in that world; you don't like that dress. When you told her yes, she began living in a world that didn't have you in it.

When someone believes a lie, it becomes true, as true as anything in this world, because they begin to live by it, they begin to see things through a lens of which that lie is a part. A lie creates a schism, it literally fragments the reality between two people. The bigger the lie, the bigger the distance. A lie is essentially an act of alienation.

Conversely, the closer you want to be with someone, the more truth you tell them. In this case, you invite them into your world.

11:35 p.m. 2003-12-08�