Telling lies? (A line you can hear)

Telling lies?

Okay you already know what's next. Perhaps you did sing the next line.

Alright. Here I am again with my random thoughts. Thoughts that I consider worthy to think of, perhaps. Just bear with me this time, again. If this isn't your genre, you can skip me but I will be back and haunt you with my articles. Just kidding!

Let's talk about lies and how often we do it. I don't believe that there are still humans who don't tell lies. Come on! We do bruh. Even telling to our friends that we are on the way though truth is we are still taking a bath is a lie. Just a small lie but still a lie in any angle.

So why do we tell lies?

This is just based on my observation and experiences.

Some of us tell lies to make the people we love at ease. For instance, we have a problem that can't be solve right away and we really need help. One of the family members may it be your mom and dad or the oldies ask you what's keeping you uneasy. And because you know they have problems too, you would not dare tell them so they won't feel extra burden. Instead of opening the problem to them, you simply say "nothing's wrong". Can we consider this lie good or bad? They say lying itself is already wrong but is it wrong if it makes the people we love feel right?

Some of us tell lies to avoid questions. I remember my mom always ask me questions about my performance in school when it was still face to face. Whenever I come home, she interviews me about my grades and I find it too irritating and tiring so if she asks me, "How's your grades?" I would say "Good" thought it's not so good. I just don't want questions because we all know, moms have a pile of questions -- one over the other.

Some of us tell lies because we are afraid of the consequences. There was one time when I forgot to push the rice cooker button downward making the rice uncooked. When it was the time to eat, my dad went to the kitchen to get rice but to his surprise, the rice is uncooked. He hastened to our direction and asked us who cooked the rice. Of course, I don't want to get in trouble so I denied everything. I chose my peace.

Some of us tell lies because we don't want to hurt someone's feelings. There's this classmate of mine who's always conscious about her physical appearance. I'm quite annoyed with her but I can't avoid her since we are seatmates. I can't transfer to another seat because our teacher made our seats as her basis of attendance. Every morning, this seatmate of mine asks me she looks okay when she's facing her mirror already. Well, she looks okay though, I told her that but her smell/body odor isn't. I guess she always forgot to use deodorant. I almost told her that her smell is unpleasant but I don't want to make her feel bad so I just stayed silent and endure everything. I wonder how I did it but yeah, I surpassed it.

Some of us tell lies to make ourselves believe that everything is fine. Thus, we sometimes fool ourselves. Telling ourselves that everything is fine is okay but not everyday. I believe we should face the situation so we can be able to find solutions there and then. Telling ourselves always that it's okay can sometimes hinder us to keep moving. We will end saying, "Nah, everything is fine. God will make a way. Tomorrow is going to be perfect."

Saying this ain't wrong but make sure we must also accompany it with the right action.

Some of us tell lies because we find pleasure in lying. In short, it became a habit. This is what I don't want to happen to me. I tell lies sometimes but I don't want to make it as a habit nor feel pleasure in doing so. I can't think of the perfect example to this so I will just use my friends. Sorry friends. There are friends of mine that are not afraid to lie. These friends are men who have girlfriends. They lie to their girlfriends because they think that makes them cool. They keep seeing others girls because it gives them pleasure. They often do this. Thus, it became their habit.

There are a lot of reasons why people lie. I cannot tell them all in one say. But whatever are those, I am sure we have reasons for doing it. It's easy for us to judge but we will not understand the situation unless we are in it. I will not conclude that all types of lies are bad because there are white lies that make the situation better and we don't hurt anyone. It depends actually. I am not encouraging someone to lie though. Just stating my observations.

But above all these, lies are still lies and we should avoid it.

Now it's your turn to share and think of the reasons why we lie. Let me hear your realizations from it. Let's keep it popping!

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