Become a CL from the need to justify?

I was thinking about this today.

I am now able to see that I have lied a lot, those really meaningless lies, because I always felt a need to justify myself.

For example, today I will go to the bike shop to get my suspension fixed. I have phoned them yesterday and I told them that I would be going there yesterday. Unfortunately other things came up and yesterday I couldn't go there.
I will go today and say "sorry, yesterday I couldn't make it".
But I'm absolutely sure that a week ago I would say something like "sorry, I couldn't make it yesterday because..."

And the because would probably be some kind of excuse. Just to justify why I didn't go!

The main point here is: I don't owe a justification to everybody! So I can just say something like "couldn't make it". That's it.

Anyone else feels something like this? It would be nice to read your thoughts.

I think that sounds very plausible.

It would be great to hear from more people.

I did that myself today.

"I thought the contract was with the other letters I mailed last friday"

I didn't send any letters last friday. I was just too lazy to go and buy stamps and send it.

Good to read more input into this. Thanks!