Being somewhat overly honest myself I was expecting a turn back at the end, not a 'I learned to be okay with lying' moral of the story. Yes being honest makes life harder, that's the point. Cheating at sports also helps to win but that's not a good reason to teach kids how to 'cheat better' instead of how to play correctly. Yes they will learn that cheating works, unless the rules are fairly enforced, but that goes for every level of society.

Lying and cheating are only successful strategies in proportion to how they are tolerated in society. Accepting them as strategies in your own life only increases this tolerance and leads to more lying/cheating in society in general. Thanks for doing your part to make the world worse and then writing about it.