When you are asked a personal question how honest are you in responding?

Provocative title, hmm?
Periodically, I feel the need to discuss honesty and when we should be blatantly honest to a fault and when TMI, too much information is not that necessary.
This of course is purely my own opinion.
Which as we all know it is not worth a hill of beans…

Now the idiom that I used above, “it is not worth a hill of beans", comes from, just a minute, I will have to Google it… “None of those guys is worth a hill of beans, so don't worry about what they say.” Or in my case believe or care about what I say, unless you really want to.
Thanks to the below site:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/be+worth+a+hill+of+beans

People enjoy expressing themselves with flowery language at times and some may feel that while trying to make what they say more interesting that it appears to be dishonest. I have this enormous flaw that when asked a question I usually expound on the answer. But most people don't need all that information and so I suppose that I am the queen of TMI!

Oddly enough, though, when asked yesterday on the phone by the nurse if I ever felt depressed, I said no.
Many here know that that was a bald faced lie.
Why I have ups and downs just like everyone else, now I can't tell you why I said that, but at the time seemed like a good idea.
Yes, I guess I am just like everyone else, when it comes to not always telling the complete truth, I suppose that was my 'AHA' moment.
In reality, 'REALITY' does bite.
But why should it?
Are we all destined to be dishonest for reasons of hiding how we truly feel or what we are?
I like to think that I am usually honest with everyone I come in contact with and yet some days recently I have proved the opposite.
Now people have been telling me for years that being polite is: if you can't say anything nice than don't say anything at all.
Words to live by and make friends with many people, who think that you're great! People pleasing, gosh I used to try for that, when did it all change?
Trying to teach an old dog new tricks has not come easily to this writer; I have burned many bridges in my wake with my so-called honesty. Perhaps, now is the time before I die, which could be tomorrow, next week, 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 years from now, who knows...Really?

Why did I feel the need to confess here, when who knows I could be tattled on; maybe that's why I started with my idea of telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me G-D.
Did you ever notice people who lie never get the same story straight twice in a row?
But when someone tells the truth they know what happened because it's the truth and it can't be changed, period.
Now I've never worked for a law enforcement agency, but I have read quite a few novels about such things and of course there's T V.
Aren’t we all ‘who done it’, figure it out type people?
Isn't it in our nature?
Inquisitive, curious, industrious and of course a bit mysterious all create interesting characters that make up the world and a good novel too.
I'm jumping all over the place/ page again...
That's the way my mind works, train of consciousness is like that, oddly enough we all have that ability. In the old days when we watched Perry Mason they had the psychiatrist’s do word association with the possible criminal, and gosh I loved Perry Mason, and Colombo and Murder She Wrote, you name it; I watched it. Law and Order, CSI are some of the more recent, intriguing ones and lest us not forget Bones!
The new shows are getting there; you all must agree and so with my basic knowledge of what tells you if the person is lying or not is something to think about.

And as for me, I will continue to try and behave myself, but not be dishonest or too honest. I suppose not much different than being confident or arrogant, in my weird book of how I figure things out.
That's my problem, I get all this confused, oh well, not your problem, definitely mine.

On that TMI of why I have decided to play the game called politeness and conduct myself in an appropriate desired way and with that semi-promise, allow me to be the first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share your overages, and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!