Howdy folks 🤠 how was your Monday? Mine was again unproductive like every other day, even when I had something important I need to do. It is almost 2 weeks since I returned from my field practical training in Lagos and the university is currently on lockdown because of the current strike, but I decided to stay back in school and work on my report.
We are expected to write a report at the end of our practical training and submit it after a week but since the university is currently on strike, we will have to submit it whenever school resumes (probably towards the end of April). But unfortunately, I haven't started my report yet 😩 I have been procrastinating but I promise myself to start tomorrow 🙂.
But enough of the rant, let me go straight to the topic for today. I was with a friend yesterday when a call came in and it was her mother. I heard her saying she went to church earlier (which is a big lie!) and that she's currently in Lagos because her practical training isn't over yet, and she even has a class the next day!
She was spinning the webs of lies so well that I was even believing it despite the fact that I was there with her and I knew we returned from Lagos more than a week ago. When she ended the call, I asked her what that was about and she said she haven't told her mom she was back from Lagos because she will order her to return home since the university is on strike.
I told her how she was a master when it comes to lying and she laughed and said "The key to a good lie is to mix in some elements of truth, and sometimes you have to use a real event", and she's right! The trick to telling a great lie is to start with the truth and simply deviate from it.
One thing some persons do when they lie is to leave out certain things when telling a story and even when they are caught, they will say; "I didn't lie, I just left out some certain things which I thought isn't necessary". In that case, will you still call it a lie? That depends on how you see it, I still choose to see it as a lie.
I don't think there's anybody innocent when it comes to lying (except maybe babies), we even do it subconsciously sometimes without even realizing we just lied. I actually do think people do get better at lying the more they do it, just like every other skill (practice makes perfect 😂).
I used to be a bad liar when I was a kid but I worked on it and got better by learning from my mistake. Usually, the first step to telling a good lie is believing it yourself, and that's a lot easier if you start with the truth and start deviating from it. There are also other factors to consider during lying like breathing, body language, intonation, and others.
It looks like I am encouraging you guys to lie 😂 but is lying really a bad thing? I guess it depends on the situation in which it's used but yet again it is generally believed that it's a bad thing. Sometimes lying can be useful in getting us out of a dangerous situation in which the truth will be very dangerous (and fatal 😉) but some other times, lying can be very unnecessary and is done when someone has a selfish motive.
So what do you think, is lying totally a bad thing? How good of a liar are you?
Thanks for reading 💖💖💖
Monday March 28, 2022
Aha! That's something beautifully told. Some people are really good at lying that they make almost everyone believe in them.