A mounting problem: lying and pretending

I remember from my childhood, that we were taught not to lie and to behave modestly without any pomposity. Our parents, teachers and preachers were always emphasizing and infusing the notions of telling the truth and the despise of arrogance. But real life, as we found while growing gradually, was totally different from these good intentions, especially that those very people held once in high esteem in our once innocent eyes, souls and little brains, were lying and pretending on different occasions. (To be cont.)