“Given the choice to live a lie or to live a painful truth, I'll choose the latter because, to me, living a lie is more painful.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 58
In other words
A painful truth can break the life we hoped was real. It may take away comfort, show us a mistake, or make us see ourselves and others without the cover of what we wanted to believe. Yet truth gives us something real to stand on.
A lie costs us in another way. Keeping it means turning away from what we already know. The struggle then moves inside us: we know one thing but try to live as if another were true. That split can hurt more than the truth we were trying to avoid.
Living truthfully does not make every truth easy or remove its results. It means not losing ourselves while trying to escape them. Pain can be carried without pretending it is something else.
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