Recently I have begun watching House. M.D., which has been a blast. He reminds me so much of a mix of people in my life. He’s funny, blunt, selfish, cruel, and usually high on narcotics. He is kind of crazy but in a number of his episodes he says: “Everybody lies.” Now this statement can be offensive but about ninety-eight percent of the time he is right. One of his patients will give the team one bit of story, usually the bit that is the least embarrassing or maybe that were scared to admit before. They’ll lie, endanger their own lives and they’ll lie. After the truth comes House’s team cures them. This I find is quite a valid point. Not to make a generalization and say that everyone does fib every once in a while but the majority of people do. We lie to our children. We tell them yes, you will be okay. There isn’t anything under your bed. Well, we know there is nothing under their beds but it doesn’t mean that they are going to believe us anyway. So they won’t be okay. They may crawl into bed with you and your spouse because they didn’t believe the first lie you told them. The next day when they fall off the swing, you’ll tell them the same thing. You’ll be okay. Lying gives us and those around us comfort. It lulls us into a safe kind of world where it will be okay as long as we keep up the habit of lying. Honestly, we are all creatures of habit. We’ve been lying since we were little. When we told our parents that is wasn’t us that ate the last cookie or piece of cake, we lied. It’s something that seems to be built into all of us. To preserve ourselves and fib about things that are possibly harmful to us.
You can blame lying on so many things that is wrong with our world today. When politicians run for any type of office they all probably tell a little white lie or two to get the votes they need. If the president was completely honest about all the actual problems with the world and our country America would have probably already become a barren wasteland.
Another quote that I have found said by the people around me and on movies before is: ‘You don’t have to have a good memory if you tell the truth. Not only that but once we start down the oath of perpetual lying it’s so hard to find your way back. If you lie to your friends, parents, family, colleagues, and associates you find yourselves talking to people less because you can’t remember the lie you told him.
Lying is a horrible habit. Everyone does it but it doesn’t mean you should.
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Sadly enough though if we really did avoid lying as much, our generation could be much more volatile. Imagine if a child walked in on a father, drunk on the couch, and when that child asked what was wrong if the father simply said “Your mother cheated on me, I'm depressed, we're separating.” Sometimes it can be better to just say a small little lie to protect others. This doesn't mean I condone just lying about everything, but I do believe that lying is a conditional thing and can sometimes be the better option.
ReplyDeleteI love House, I have been watching that show for ever! I did notice that expecting people to lie to him is one of the things he always has to deal with. I think that they do think that some things that they have to say are embarrassing, but I also think that so many people naturally lie to someone they have not gotten to know so that they can keep a bit of distance. Maybe the problem with lying is not really that we just naturally lie, but could be that we just naturally do not trust.
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