What is a lie?
Lies
How to distinguish between a truth and a lie?
A lie can come in 3 main forms- Persistence, Denial and Alternate-isness.
Allow me to share with you some examples to get a clearer picture:
1) Persistence
If I want to convince you that a bottle of mineral water is actually the holy water from Klulabaha Holy Land, I have to tell you a long long story and throw in alot of facts and fluff so that you can be hoodwinked into thinking that, it’s actually holy water. In contrast, it will be effortless for me to just tell you straight that it’s just a bottle of mineral water.
Similarly, when your supervisor ask you for your project progress, "Have you completed your task?", you can either tell the truth, "Nope, I haven’t completed it.", or you can come up with a kuku excuse like, "Oh, it’s progressing well. I’ve spoken to my team mates and we’re meeting tonight to work OT to fine tune the entire process."
Do you get the difference? Next…
2) Denial
When you know you are fat and need to lose weight, some parts of you might deny the truth strongly ‘cos you’re darn too lazy to exercise. So you deny that you are fat. In fact, you might begin to think that this whole topic about weight is a subjective matter. What is fat to you may be slim to others. Anyway, it’s not that you dun want to hit the gym. The gym closes on public holiday and today’s a public hol.
That’s a denial.
3) Alternate-isness
You really want a million dollars. Deep down inside, you’ve always wanted that sum of money b’cos you always envy those whom are capable enough to earn that sum of money. You decided to embark on a business venture. Somehow along the way, the journey gets really tough. At this juncture, you might form alternate philosophy around the topic and you go, "you know what? today it just dawn to me that it’s so pointless to work so hard. Why work so hard anyway? We’re all gonna die. Life is short. The most important thing is to enjoy life. Money is still secondary. Nah, I dun really need that sum of money."
There you go! You created a whole new story behind your lie.
So what’s the TRUTH then?
It is the truth when there’s nothing left to defend.
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Path
There are many paths.
The heart knows which one it desires to walk.
The head is undecided.
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Fun
I got bored being SERIOUS.
Let’s be FUN!
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Mugging
3 more exams to go!
And 1 more term paper to submit!
Sigh…
Shut up and DO YOUR WORK!
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The Truth
I want to study hard and focus in ace-ing my term paper and final exams.
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