Scared Of The Truth Essays - Deception, Lie, Lying, Loveless

Scared Of The Truth People in this world lie for many reasons, most being simple white lies that are told everyday on a regular basis. People tells these lies simply to prevent someone from getting hurt, lies to keep themselves from getting into trouble, and humorous lies. This comes naturally; I believe I catch myself doing this from time to time even though I know that lies can lead to more lies, and long term trouble. Occasionally we tell lies simply to prevent from hurting those that we care about. I myself tend to do it quite often myself only because I take others feelings into consideration from time to time. This comes about a lot when my girlfriend calls me on Skype, and tries on clothes that she just purchased or wants to wear something out. I either tell her that it's pretty, or nice reason being is that I would rather tell her a white lie than to see her sad or make her think that I don't really care about what she's wearing. This to me is just as equivalent as telling someone that everything is ok after being hurt, or injured it's just instincts sometimes to keep people from worrying so much. As we all know lies can be told at different degrees, some of the lies that tend to be the most intense are the lies that are told for someone else's benefit. These are lies normally told to help prevent someone from getting into trouble, or to get someone else out of trouble, but doing this could get more than just one person in trouble. Say for instance a group of people go out simply to have fun, but they end up drinking, driving, and driving reckless then they hit a pedestrian. The driver is taken to jail, and has to wait for their court date, and his friends are told they have to appear in court to testify, and they are the only thing that can determine whether or not the driver will go to jail or if he is set free. Let's say the friends approach the stand to tell their sides of the story, but the officer that arrested the driver shows evidence that opposes what they have stated on the stand under oath. Now they all could end up facing perjury charges and sent to jail. I'm able to relate to relate to telling simple lies simply for humor, because of an even that took place with me and my family at a restaurant. I remember going to Ruby Tuesday, with my family I walked in, and I so happened to run into the manager I thought I could get a laugh out of just simply joking with him. The joke was me telling the manager that it was my brother's birthday, not thinking that he would actually believe me. Soon after our dinner we were just sitting around having a good time, and the manager and his staff came around the corner singing, came with cake, and even drinks. Everyone at the table had a such amazed look on their faces, even myself I quickly got up and told the manager that I was just joking I was even more surprised to see the only way that he could react was by smiling. I'm not saying that his reaction makes lien ok, because I'm sure that a simple lie like that one will make him more cautious when it comes to believing me again. Telling lies have all types of dead ends, no matter if it's by you loosing bonds with friends or family, or simply loosing trust from anyone. I must say that I have learned my lessons from many different occasions about lien, I'm not saying that you shouldn't do it because it's the way of life sometimes you can't help it, but try to remember that the more that you may put into a lie that you tell the more you could possibly loose in the long run.