What You Left Out Changed Everything; The Power Of Omission

In the world of omission and lies, the truth is filtered, cropped, and changed to white until it paints just the perfect picture they want you to see. In this world, it's not really about what's said, but what's left out, and that's what matters.

Have you ever conversed with someone, feeling like you understood everything they said, but somewhere in your heart, you felt like they didn't say the whole truth? Like there was a tiny piece of information they needed to add to make it complete but they didn't just to make the story more interesting and make them look good. I mean nobody would want to outright paint themselves black right?.

When asked to define a lie, everyone would give the same answer. Truth is that omission isn't really considered as lying. A lie is something completely false. But what would you call this, when someone withholds the key information when explaining something to you, knowing fully well that it's not true and whatever they say is what you'd believe and judge the situation with.
There's a lot of power in what's left unsaid, and even tho some of you won't admit it, this is something we've all done at some point in time.
At that time, I didn't really consider it lying even tho my conscience pricked me after omitting a few things here and there. I felt like I only left some parts out which wasn't a big deal.

Say the whole situation as it is, and let the listener judge the matter.
You know that one time where you told your friend about this guy, and then you told her why the relationship failed, making it look like he's the problem, just to make you look better. This feels less dirty than lying with a straight face, and it's not like you fabricated anything. You only said what was there, but you only omitted your part.

Some years ago, I had a situation with this one friend and honestly, I always knew that whenever she was explaining anything to me, she would always omit the part where she was the problem. It made me angry most of the time and I honestly never took her own side of the story seriously because I knew it wasn't complete. Chika wasn't a liar, but having a conversation with her felt like I was listening to a tape of lies. Like bro!! Give me the full gist plus the part you flopped. Whenever I had a conversation with her, you'd have to milk her and ask so many questions before she would tell you everything.

Feeling betrayed is an understatement whenever I get to hear the whole story from another person. It even pains more when you think you're so close with the person only for them to lie to your face.

Why do you think people do this? The only answer I can give is that they want to paint themselves as angels. They paint themselves so white that you can't find a blemish on them.
And sometimes, they lie because they feel that saying the whole truth might hurt others (which I clearly understand, but it's still lying ).
And lastly, I would say some people do it because it's now a habit, they carefully curate what they share to save their image and look like a better person.

Whether you omit the truth because of guilt or fear, just know that the other person receiving the information is ending up with a false version of everything.

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