Growing up, my dad used to tell us that the thing he hated the most was us lying to him. He made sure to make us understand how important telling the truth was to him. And just for us to better understand his point, he would often let us off with a warning whenever we did something wrong and told him the truth about it.
And this was a big deal for us because my dad used to be a disciplinarian (used to, because we're no longer kids anymore so he had to tune it down), whenever we did something wrong, he would make sure he dealt with us in a manner where whenever we find ourselves in a position where we could commit that same offence but remembered how much he dealt with us, the thought alone would stop us from going further with it.
Although the true didn't always spare us, because there were offences that even the truth couldn't set me free from, we still got the message that my dad was passing across and that made us a lot truthful (at least it made me, I'm not so sure about my siblings).
Anyways, having that kind of upbringing made it possible for me to hate lying because I knew that would only get in trouble and I hated being punished by my dad because the man was always so creative with his punishments. So I guess you can say that the fear of that made me learn to live a straight life, that and also because I saw the way people treat people who lie a lot, how little their words meant to anyone.
And I knew this because there was a time in my life where I felt it was fun to tell silly little lies. It may have been fun at first but then my siblings started to take my words less and less serious to the extent where they no longer took my words for it and I almost paid for that the hard way.
So I know what it means to not be taken seriously and I hate it and that was why I made a promise to myself never to tell any lies to anyone unless I absolutely have to. And I say that because I know no one can be entirely honest because that could put one's life in danger if they're not careful, but at least I try my best to make sure that I tell as little lie as possible.
That is the one code that I always try to live by and I've come to notice that living life that way has brought me a lot of respect from both male and female, it has made people to trust me more because they feel I'm someone they could count on due to how honest I try to be.
Living life this way is undoubtedly one of the best decisions that I've taken in my life because I'm always at peace with myself and not worrying about someone finding out the truth of whatever lie I may have told them in the past.