We live in a society where exaggeration and falsehood are slowly beginning to outweigh truth and honesty. We only see what people want us to see, when in reality, its how they are behind closed doors that truly describe their character. It’s so hard these days to weed out the genuine from the imitation, the honest from the dishonest and the real from the fake. Hearing lies has to be one of my biggest pet peeves, and the sad part is that I’m extremely good at spotting lies. Since I was younger, I have been lied to many times—mostly about silly things; and it can become quite saddening, especially when it’s from someone close to you.
The motive behind telling lies are probably many in number, but I believe the two biggest ones are either to be accepted, or to cover up something. But regardless of the reason for lying, it is never okay. If you don’t want someone to know something, it is better to not bring up that subject at all—that way the opportunity to lie won’t present itself. Let’s be completely honest though =-), we have all lied in our lives—especially to our parents when we were younger. But as we grow up, this habit should be taken seriously and stopped immediately. Here are a few reasons why:
The Power Of Words
Humans have incredible power latent within the words that they speak, but overtime this power becomes watered down by too much exaggeration and lies. If you study all the great men and women of history, you will notice that they seldom spoke. They only spoke what was necessary and what was true. When you train yourself this way, your words build up a great momentum of power, so the next time that you announce something filled with sincerity and conviction, the vibration of those words will shake the world to manifest their desire.
“Practice truthfulness. Twelve years of absolute truthfulness in thought, word, and deed gives a man what he wills.”
~ Swami Vivekananda
And that is the truth—if you look at the lives of the yogis who hardly spoke, never mind lied, everything they will comes to light.
Lies Can Become True
If you continuously spit out whatever you feel like in order to get whatever you want, the universe will eventually have no choice but to put you in your place. Those who constantly lie will sometimes have to face their own lie one day just so that they can learn their lesson. This is not a confirmed phenomenon, but there’s no doubt that it has happened many times in the past.
If you constantly lie about someone’s death in order to create excuses for yourself, they may really die the next time that you do. If you lie and say you are sick all the time, you will really get sick the next time that you do and so on. It can even be found in the Bible:
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
~ Proverbs 18:21
Every Lie Catches Up To You
This is a universal law. It may take years and years for it to catch up to you, but it eventually will; and when it does, you won’t be happy. Sometimes you will lie yourself into a huge mess to the point that you have no choice but to come clean in order to have things return to the way they were.
Here is an example that has recently happened to me. One day an employee wanted the weekend off and told me he was leaving town to celebrate his girlfriend’s birthday. No problem at all. I covered his shifts until everything was back to normal. Fast forward 6 months later and he requested another day off, telling me that it was his girlfriend’s birthday! Of course I immediately reminded him that birthday’s only come once per year if we are going by the generic American 12 month calendar. Needless to say he was quite embarrassed that I had caught him lying and had no choice but to admit that he lied to me.
There are so many ways that lies can come back around to bite you in the neck, it’s pointless to lie in the first place. You may look high and mighty now, but when you are found out, you will look low and crummy. Let’s make our world a better place by promoting truth and honesty.
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