Lying is a harmful activity, and it damages both you, and the person you are lying to. According to Chris Iliades at Everyday Health, “Lying is taxing both physically and emotionally. Because one lie leads to another, you can forced into a nerve-wracking cycle of lies that becomes harder and harder to keep track of.” Eventually you will get found out, leading to more heartache and trouble.

Lying can hurt our relationship with others, because once we lie to a person you A: cant take that lie back, and B: that person or people, will lose faith and trust in you. That trust is a very hard thing to earn back, especially with promises. This leaves you alone, further worsening your mental state.

We see that, once a lie is committed, it is forever on the conscience of that person, as seen in the novel ‘The Scarlet Letter’, “‘Hester […] has thou found peace?’ ‘Hast thou,’ she asked, ‘None!-Nothing but despair!’ He answered” (Nathaniel Hawthorne 172). This shows the lasting affect that the lying has on them, and shows a true example of how lying can hurt your emotional and physical.

Lying can also damage your mind by making you think of yourself as worthless, and, as Iliades states, “It’s hard to feel good about yourself when you are living a lie. Lies can seem like an easy way out at first, but when you can’t look at yourself in the mirror, your emotional health can’t survive.” Eventually you will reach a point where you lose all self esteem, leaving you felling worthless, and guilty.

In the end, the only person who you will hurt the most is yourself, leaving you without self esteem, and without anyone who trusts you. You will end up an outcast, and this worsens your image, further causing a depressed state in the brain. Lying, in all cases, leads to problems, pain, heartache, and is never good for the person telling the lie.