Oh No - That Word called Lying :)

If we could wave a magic wand or make a birthday wish like in the movie “Liar, Liar”. After which everyone everywhere had to always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, what a wonderful world it would be…just bliss.

~ Yeah ~ OR WOULD IT BE?

What about when she asks, “Do I look fat in these clothes?” As humans have evolved mentally, we seem to have become better and enhanced at being “economical with the truth”. We “contextualize”, yep I made my own word there Contextualize, meaning we shave the truth just a ……a little, so we can’t accuse ourselves, nor feel guilty of out and out lying.

“Liar” is such a negative word really isn’t it – then when one sees the word there is an automatic thought much like a yield sign if not worse as it really does have bad vibes to most all of us as we have been raised to have ideals and this word lying just was not apart of the diction or we were taught that it should not be apart of how we conduct ourselves as we were always to be accountable as well as tell the truth. 

So we rationalize some things just by telling a little bit or a piece of the truth at times in, which we don’t wish to tell the whole truth. I know there have been times within my life that I told a half truths and I am sure that you have as well. Or we just remain as silent as we can be. By telling a bit of the truth but not the whole truth in some areas we do make way, a police officer may pull us over when we are slightly going over the speed limit, and when he or she asks those first questions, we may just ever so gently rationalize or just say a little bit with regards to the entire truth - but we shall keep this all here ok - ok deal.

We’ll say we can’t make it when asked if attending something, giving the impression we’re committed elsewhere or at least there’s a good reason not to go when the truth is that we just don’t want to go, plain and simple. Or we will tell a “fib”, which is theoretically a little lie about something trivial, fooling ourselves into believing that it’s not really a lie, it’s just a fib.

Unfortunately, the triviality of something is a subjective judgment. Then there are what we call, “little white lies”, called that because, in the mind of the person telling it, it can’t possibly cause any real harm; it’s only a teeny little white lie. But, we can’t change human nature and we can’t just wish it so…so, everybody does it. Everybody knows everybody does it.

Nobody can do anything about it because the fact is that it is socially accepted, as against acceptable, to misrepresent the facts as we see fit. And, don’t you just hate it when someone talking to you begins a sentence with, “To tell you the truth”, or, “To be perfectly honest with you”?

Sure we all have and shall within various times within our lives.