Believe

Most people would say and even argue that lying is the best scapegoat anyone can ever have. Lying on several occasions to save myself from unwanted conflicts, I couldn’t help but agree more. Lying is like a drug, it’s a quick solution, an escape, from our problems. If one is a good enough liar, it’s possible for that individual to get away with anything. But like a drug, lying has its undesirable side effects. The effects of lying will leave us out of balance, challenging not only our consciences but our mental stability as well.

 When we lie, we create a story that is far from or even the exact opposite of the truth and in a way, we are forced to believe it as well because we need to be convincing when we say it to others.  The more we lie, the more we are caught up in the world we make, often times losing ourselves as we convince others to believe our little story.  In a nutshell, the more often we lie and the longer we stick to our lies, I believe that at some point, if we are not wary, our lies may just replace our reality. We first convince ourselves to believe the lie before we convince others of the same thing. And because often times, people ask us to repeat our hand-made truth for their hearing pleasure, our thinking becomes accustomed and even comfortable with living with our stories. We may not notice it or neglect it but some way, somehow when we are living deep enough in our own lie, we struggle to separate what is the truth and what is not. To make things more challenging for us, we have the opinions of other people, people we have convinced to believe our lie that adds to the burden we already shoulder. The people concerned will usually throw in their unwanted opinions which thrust us deeper into believing our lie as we are forced to listen to them, their words that are based from our scapegoat, knowing that if we are to argue, we will be forced to give up our lie as well.

When we lie, we often think that we place the reality in the palm of our hands, manipulating it as we wish and making others see what we want them to see. We’d often feel relaxed if not proud after lying spares us from a close call. But come to think of it, there are a lot of ways how lying yes, serves its purpose of manipulating others, but, also manipulating us, the user in more ways than one. We need only to open the pages of our imagination. Lying is an attack on reality that has recoil.