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When I was a kid, my dad used to share lessons like proverbs. A chemical engineer, Army vet and operations and management kind of guy, he would say things like numbers are a plaything," and "Chemistry makes the world go around Not exactly helpful to a young, creative english major kid like me, but there were some truths that stuck with me.
"A man is only as good as his word."
I remember the first time he told me this. It was just after I lied about breaking something - a lamp? - in order to avoid getting in trouble. I'm the kind of person that is harder on himself than others can be. I tend not to forgive myself for making mistakes and I guess, subconsciously, I thought that if I was hard enough on myself, other people shouldn't be hard on me. So I went through a spate of lies to avoid trouble