Do you remember the first lie you told as a child? The first one where you knew you were lying and what lying meant? I do. I was probably 4 or 5. I’d done something my parents told me explicitly not to do. And of course I got hurt. When asked how I’d hurt myself, I lied. I couldn’t even look them in the eye as I headed to bed. I lay there, the weight of heavy conviction making me feel as if I couldn’t breathe. I started crying. Jumped out of bed and confessed. I didn’t want t