Imagine you are a parent and your child commits some action that he shouldn’t have and lies you about that action on asking and you get to know by someone else that your child was involved in this action. How would you feel? You might want to hit your child as hard as you can or punish him in another way. This action that your child commits then has some bad or unhandled consequences resulting in your loss. Well, the thing is that you might have had things under control by the moment your child committed that bad action and if he told you the truth rather than a lie and you might have prevented yourself from the loss. This little imagination does sound horrible. Isn’t it? Well, first of all, we should prevent ourselves from committing bad actions and secondly we should not make it a habit of telling lies. But why do people lie?
Well, we all lie daily. It has become a part of our daily lives. We tell a lie to keep ourselves away from troubles. We tell a lie to impress someone. We tell a lie to ignore someone. We tell a lie on almost everything. Whatever we do we can’t prevent ourselves from telling lies. In one or other way we all lie even to our dear ones. Sometimes we lie to ourselves as well and as long as we can’t be honest with our own selves we can’t be honest with anyone out there. We start lying from our childhood. We start from lying about little things to major things. What is constraining us on lying? Are we that much helpless that we should live on the support of lying? Why should we make our lives a lie? What are the causes and effects of lying?
Children lie because they are too afraid of their parents and teachers. From drawing something on walls to fighting someone of their own age all children lie just to get away from any trouble. This isn’t a flaw in parents upbringing their children. But one thing is for sure, children learn to lie from their elders. The major reason of children lying to others is that they also have heard their elders lying to someone else. So it is better for the elders to not lie in front of their children because lying is a curse.
Many teenagers are involved in lying to their parents and other people. They lie about their grades, their habits, their weekend plans etc. Most of the teenagers lie just to impress someone. Then if their truth is revealed they have to bear a mountain of embarrassment. They should run away from every bad habit so that they don’t have to lie about them later.
Elders also lie however they always exhort their children to speak the truth. They should understand that until and unless they don’t stop lying how their children are supposed to stop lying? Elders lie about their routine, their work, their jobs, age and much more. Some lies can cause house breaking damage. For example, if a girl is getting married to someone and her previous boyfriend is still in love with her. He might tell lies about that someone who is getting married with his ex-girlfriend. This action can result in breaking of the relation or relations. This also happens and it has become quite common these days.
There are two effects of lies.
1. Good lies
2. Bad lies
Some lies can be in favor of others. Telling lies to save a life cannot harm anyone. Lies which are used in house colonization can also be considered in good lies because it is giving someone advantage and not giving any disadvantage to anyone. But still, a lie is a lie. One shouldn’t lie until and unless he is in an extreme state of some situation where lying is the only option. But he should be aware that, that lie shouldn’t harm any including himself.
Apart from the lies that can cause no harm to others, all other lies are considered as bad lies because those lies can be responsible for someone committing suicide or committing something else that should be committed.
I would suggest you all the readers to never lie. Lying is a bad habit and we are used to lying. We have become experts in lying but lying can have worse consequences. We should only lie when we don’t have any option left and the lie that cannot harm others in any way.
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