The Art of Lying

The Art of Lying

Humans are walking-talking machines that continuously shower each other with bullets. These bullets are called lies. Lies are one of the obstacles that hinders man to completely progress and find success along with happiness and peace. Think of these lies as one monster. This monster lures us all into its claws and once it is sure that its victim can’t run away, it slowly devours the purity and truth left in the soul; the core. Lies are easy to say, especially if one has a past in which they- by force or will- told a lot of lies. But one person’s lie creates a domino-chain of a thousands of them.

When you come to think of it, there are hardly any people who never speak lies. And furthermore, you may say, lies aren’t always to harm or hurt others but that, those lies actually help the person in front, that the lie is better than the truth. Or the fact that some lies are so tiny or trivial, that they can easily be neglected and forgiven. But at the end of the day, are you not hiding the truth and tricking the victim of the lie into thinking something else? Are you not keeping the other person in the dark and misleading them? Will the victim, when they realize the truth, not experience double the pain, knowing that you lied to them and showed them something false?

The truth, we all know, is not always sweet or in accord to our expectations. It can be sudden, harsh, cold, unexpected, bitter, and even unbelievable. But isn’t that a part of life? The monster of lies directs the attention of humanity from the reality to something that decays their brain. Lies are a front for a world where as soon as you settle down, the actual world shoves you down a cold sea of the lies and betrayals you are now responsible for. 

But that is only when you did not intend to hurt the other person. When you take the help of a lie to take revenge or merely hurt someone, knowing the blow it shall deliver on the victim, that is when you no longer stay human. It is you then, as well. But you walk around the world in the skin of a fiend. When one has so many deeds he can’t let anyone know about, he starts acting under the fear of these lies. He wants to relieve his guilt by forcing others to commit the same mistakes as him.

As I said in the preamble, compare these lies to an inhuman monster. But this time, you know how this monster was born. We, humans, encouraged its growth. Basically, the monster isn’t one creature or person, it includes all of those who are responsible for someone else’s grieve and pain which is caused by their lies. There is no possible way that all these lies stop and the torment that the victim had to go through reverses. We all lie. Just some lies aren’t viewed as powerful as the others.

That aside, the lies are also offer us something. When you view a lie from a different side, you’ll understand that the realization of the truth and the pain that it caused, in the end, made you stronger and more alert. Is that not the principle by which life teaches us? 

If you step into the shoes of the deceiver, you’ll see why they did what they did. They may have lied to you just so that you don’t have to face the cruelty of the truth. Or in the other cases, because they themselves were suffering unbearably. But then again, this is all a game of life where according to the point of view, the culprit keeps changing. The side changes, so does the bearer of the blame. 

Lying is one of those capabilities of the man race that makes it so unreliable. This is why no one trusts anyone anymore. In fact, I’m sure we even lie to ourselves on a daily basis and have lost belief in the power of truth, too. The inviting ease that a lie gives us, is surely tempting, but what happens behind the scenes is rapidly eating out the purity of our conscience.