Liars
Everyone tells lies. And if you think you don’t, good job, you just lied to me. See, pretty easy, uh? Yeah, here’s the problem. It’s way too easy to lie.
First off what is a lie? To that, I would respond “ a sophisticated way of omitting the truth”. In general a lie is something not true. An excuse you come up with because, for all kinds of reasons, you can’t just say the real deal.
Might be that you don’t wan’t to go to that party because you hate that person, might be because you are not interested in that situation. The reasons to lie are endless.
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Lying has saved many people from dangerous situations. For example, saying to a thief that you don’t own any money will probably prevent you from getting robbed. (However, let’s be real, no thief would just believe you if you say that you are broke, but you get my point.)
However lying is addicting. Not everybody but a lot of people tend to never stop lying. Why doing all of your chores when you can just say that you have done all of them? Lying is the easiest, cheapest way of doing things. However it is wrong, otherwise it wouldn’t be punished by the law.
A lie is a white sheet of paper. You can draw on it, stick things on top of it, cut it in pieces, fold it, break it, do everything you can imagine with it. Just like a lie. You can add lies one of top of another, you can cut up a lie by telling part of the truth.
This is what makes avoiding lies so difficult and impossible. We just can’t escape them. We have to live hand in hand with them. We have to co-exist. We need to appreciate lies and use them only for making the right decisions. I’m still learning how to do it, though.
