Sometimes we tell lies not because we want to be deceitful but because we love that person so much that we know that the truth might really break and chatter them at that instant, yes the truth will eventually come out but not at that time, at least a very convenient time should be made available for some truth to be told.
I’m writing this not because I support lies but we live in world where people actually prefer the lies than truth. But then again apart from this, most of the time why I personally do lie is out of love, sometimes fear of loosing someone or something or on the other hand to protect someone or something.
I remember most times when my mother would tell us about someone that died but the mother of that child wouldn’t know, it even happened in my family, when my grandmother died, my mum and her siblings decided to keep it away from my grandmothers elder sister, because she too was old already and she wasn’t that strong physically, although she kept asking my mum how her sister was because she knew that my grandmother was down sickness, they kept telling her that she was fine, not untill it was almost time for the burial, they had to call meeting just to tell her that her younger sister had passed on.
From a young age, we were always told that lying is deceitful, the truth is the rightful path, and there’s integrity in transparency, but at the same time the truth might instantly give someone an instant heart attack, telling lies like “All is fine” when we really know that at that point in time all is not fine at all to me isn’t really a lie, we’re living on the word HOPE.
My elder sister would always tell me about the time I had an accident, she received the call in front of our mum, she was so uneasy and couldn’t even bring herself to tell my mum that her daughter got hit by a tanker, she had to just bring up a different story entirely to tell my mum so that she doesn’t experience a high bp at the moment, when such decisions are made its not because we don’t want to tell the truth but because the truth is a little too heavy to spill.
And that point, those types of lie are to be justified because my sister was trying to protect my mum from the sudden shock, she was already scared and seriously worried about me and she didn’t want thesame for my mother, she didn’t want a case of double emergencies, when it comes to me my mum is always scared in a different kind of way because she knows that I can hardly bear pains.
Although she knew about the truth later on but in a very calm state that wouldn’t bring any extra issues, although people come up with flimsy excuse to cover up truths, I’m also guilty of this and trust me it didn’t end well.
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