Many people suggest that honest is an essential part of personality for a mature man ,especially for their best friends. Also, it is generally recognized that telling the truth to some extent is the representative of the quality of the honest .However ,I disagree with this opinion .it is oversimplified to equate the behavior of telling the truth to the personal merit of honest.
Most of the important, under some special circumstances ,making a lie doesn’t represent dishonest and it is inevitable for us to make a white lie for our friends or families,even as best friend. Consider that one of your friends give a gift to you for celebrating your birthday, when you open the box with a high expectation, but surprisingly an ugly weaved cotton coat turned out .when your friend ask “is it beautiful ? I weaved on my own for two months.” Ok,now, it is your turn to answer her question. Will you tell her directly like that “it’s so ugly and also not my style ”? It is apparent for you not to respond like that way ,though it is a truth in your mind. Otherwise, the relationship between you and her will broken up. Instead, your response to her might like that “oh, it’s so nice and i like it so much! ” , though it is not the truth,whatever it sounds polite and keeps the relationship .
On the other hand , in many cases,we should keep telling the truth rather than play tricks on others .As the relationship between friends, when one find some demerits of his or her friend, one should point it out to the friend appropriately . Furthermore ,as the relationship between the manager and his colleague ,if the manager make a wrong decision ,the colleague should make advice to his boss with implication and politeness instead of extolling the boss obsequiously.
To sum up,honest is indeed an essential part of personality for a mature human-being and it is important for us to tell the truth to others appropriately .Quite on country , the behavior of telling the truth is not equatable to the personal merit of honest.Under some special circumstance ,it is inevitable for us to make a white lies.
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