Sunday, February 14, 2016

When I was younger I went to a catholic school and thought that small classes and simple skills were how everything school related was but when I went to a public school I learned that's is not true at all.  From preschool to 6th grade I went to a catholic school with about 20 kids in my class.  Knowing everyone was easy and expected by pretty much everybody.  When I went to the public school I learned quick how different it was going from all my classes in one classroom to all my classes being in different ones and from knowing everyone to hardly anyone this transition was hard.  I struggled with getting to know people at first but by playing football and starting wrestling a year later I met many good friends whom I still am friends with today and plan on continuing to be for a very long time.  This group of guys welcomed me in and pretty much shaped who I am today and I am glad to have met as great of a group of people as I did.
In this talk about cooperative lies they talk about how lying is bad but how in many aspects it can be good. Lying is typically not a good thing to do but if it is keeping you from making someone feel bad or being ashamed of themselves there is no problem with that.  I totally agree in lies being a cooperative act because there are definitely times to lie and times to not.  People always have lied and always will, there is nobody in the world who hasn't lied about something because it is in our nature.  If it spares someone's feelings a lie is definitely worth it because you may tell the lie and think maybe I should have been honest but if it makes them feel good then it's worth it because making someone feel good will last them way longer and make them feel way better than you will feel bad about the lie.