SWEET LIES

SWEET LIES

We asked her why she got home late from school and she went on telling us this rather tall tale about how a boy in the class had made a rude remark to the teacher and when the teacher had wanted to know who made the remark, no one owed up and so the teacher decided to punish the whole class by making them clean up the school, which resulted in her coming home late.

Considering that this was about the 7th she had been late, we were not sure whether to believe her story or not. But then again, she was just about 11 years old and we wondered if she could tell a lie this big and why? We were to find out later that she had told a lie (or quite a number of lies actually), each time she had come home late from school. The truth was that she and some of her friends went visiting friends after school.

People will lie for different reasons. For children, the most common reason is to avoid punishment from people in authority i.e. parent and teachers. The trouble with lying is that one lie is never enough. Liars need to keep adding more lies to their lies but unlucky ones still get caught. Honesty, we say is the best policy but we all needed to speak the truth with wisdom.

No one, not even liars, like to be lied to, one wonders then, why so many of us still and why we fear the truth so much. Being a liar can leads to different things in life and that is the main problem that we are facing in our community today. We are unfaithful to each other and that make me ask; could the truth really be bitter?
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