Dear Diary,
I hate lying, I'm not saying that I do not lie sometimes, but I do not make it a habit lie to get me out of trouble. I really do not enjoy staying around people who lie a lot or even befriend one of them. The thing about lying is once you start lying and turn it into a habit of getting you out of trouble you can never stop. I have seen so many people drown in their own lies and at some point get caught with their lies, but still they defend their lies with more lies.
I'm saying that "the thing about lying is that when you start you can not stop" because once you tell a lie and you realize that the truth is about to be revealed then you are more likely to tell a new lie to cover up the old lie. As a kid I used to be pinched a lot by mum for telling lies, she hated it so much when I told lies, and at times when I told her the truth no matter how big the mistake was she would never punish me, simply because I said the truth. I have happened to have people in my life who lie a lot. Some of these people are too close and important to cut ties with them. I have tried in my level best to help these people change but I have failed.
Another thing about lying is when people realizes that you lie a lot they stop trusting you. And can you really blame them? I mean why even blame them? in most times they can not differentiate when you are telling a lie and when you are telling the truth, so they end up never believing a word you say. My mum always says " a woman who lies a lot is also a thief and a harlot" and as I grow I have come to realize that these things go together, I have tried to count people who lies a lot that I know and I am slowly proving my mum's theory.
What irritates me more is when someone lies even in circumstances that do not need lying, you will find a very simple situation where the truth would have been the simplest way out but still you will find a person lying. Lying is addictive, once you begin lying too much you can never stop and you never control the extent of your lies and eventually it becomes dangerous for yourself and even for the people around you.
I remember a story I read somewhere of a guy who was poor but used to boast himself as being rich, one day thieves broke into his house at night, they were armed and the demanded that he gives them the money that he always brags about, he did not have any so they killed him as they were trying to force information out of him after killing his wife and children
So lying a lot can kill you "literally" and may also cause great damage or harm to the people that you love so much. These people in my life who lies a lot really gives a difficult time, I always end up not believing a single word they say no matter how simple the issue is. And sometimes they get offended when I tell them that I do not believe what they are saying, but I am not the one to blame, they should instead blame themselves for having lied to me so many times that even their truths to me still sounds like lying.
I will start talking carefully avoiding all things that are lies which I dot have to tell. I will start telling the truth rather than being caught on a lie. No one is completely 100% truth speaker but anyone can avoid unnecessary lies. That's me, just saying
"...............lies always finds a way of catching up with you regardless of how far you left the"
Yours Truly
Rubi.
