Honesty grants you more serenity because you have no strings tying you to the past. Nor do you have any strings to anchor you, nor do you have any regrets to put upon you such burden. I am an honest man, and it has not done anything but benefit me. I may suffer sometimes, but at the end of the day, I know I would suffer more if I took everything for granted and also looked so naive to all my partners within all my relationships after the truth was eventually discovered. Why not unveil at the forefront and keep intact all my integrity as well as my relations.