why we lie...

there have been some sensible text messages doing the rounds these days. i had been trying to find the answer to the question - why we lie. my perspective was we lie when we are wrong. we lie to cover up for it. that remains the root cause. there could be other reasons on the upper layer, you don't want to hurt someone.. you don't want them to find out for whatever reasons. the one reason that i didn't think of was that probably the beholder did not deserve to know the truth! interesting isn't it? and quite true too. people at some point in life learn to lie because everyone does not deserve to know the truth!