In dictionary, the word ‘Lie’ is defined as an intentionally false statement. From ever since a person is a child, he’s been taught that he should always speak the truth and should never lie. And even many of religious books say the same thing. But the interesting thing is that those who admonish us to do so, do they also follow the same admonition in their personal life? Funnily, No…

Nowadays Lying has become a very common thing. Many people lie to make someone happy and many people lie to save themselves from something unfortunate. But in truth, people lie because they do not have courage to face the consequences of the truth. But the weirdest thing is that even if a person’s purpose of lying has been served, he still won’t be happy… Somewhere inside him, he still would be a little unsatisfied and would regret it a bit. But when a person speaks truth, no matter what ever consequences he faces, he will be satisfied at the bottom of his heart… And that is what all of us experience many times… But because of the ease gained by lying, it has become a habit to many people. Many times it happens that we lie for no reason and then we think that we really didn’t need to lie there… but in the trend of lying, we really are losing the importance and meaning of truth… And a lie can many times cause harm to other people which not many people realize till a long time in their lives…

Another funny fact about lying is that many times we lie about something and we know that it’s not true but we repeat the lie so many times that after a while even we believe it of being true… Because of the lies, many times many myths take birth… And we often create such an illusion with lies that it convinces people to be true… People tend to speak lies with so much of confidence that it becomes difficult to make out the difference between a truth and a lie…

Now the question arises,is it really possible to adapt the principle of never lying? The answer will be a clear NO. Because most of the times we lie out of the helplessness and out of the pressure of the circumstances…

Another question arises,is it bad to lie? The answer will be that not every time it is bad. Because many times the situation makes us do so… But if it becomes habitual, then it is really bad. The worst lie is the one that we tell to ourselves. We often tend to lie to our own selves even though we know the truth, but just because we are scared to accept it, we lie… Lies do not help us and we can’t shell our selves for ever under a lie… Lies just kill our ability to be brave…

Another bad part about lying is that the sweet, little, innocent and tender children learn to lie at a very small age… and this is likely to be habitual. And they learn it from their family members… especially from their parents… It is really important to teach them the actual meaning and consequences of lies. Because lying cannot resolve any problem but can only avoid the problem for a little while… The trend of lying is making people coward and often they name their cowardice as helplessness… Let’s try to be brave to face the truth and let’s try to lie as less as possible…

-Nidhi A. Joshi.

19th July, 2009.