Integrity is living so explanations rarely need editing.

There is a particular kind of ease in never having to prepare an account. What happened is simply what you say happened, without a mental pass to check which parts to soften. Most people carry more of this editing burden than they realise, because it has become background.

Notice the next time you are composing an explanation before it is asked for. Ask what specifically you were adjusting. That adjustment points at something worth changing at the source. Over time the goal is not a perfect record but fewer occasions on which the truth needs help.