Lies: A Debt to Be Paid

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“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.” - Valery Legasov, Chernobyl

Give this quote a minute and think about it, don't you think it's f***ing true? Hell yeah, yesterday I was almost dead due to a few of the lies that I had previously said to avoid chaos and those have now found their way out and were about to do bigger destruction. Somehow managed!!

They say we can tell some harmless lies that do no damage rather than save us from chaos. I have admired this theory as well to produce some lies to my benefit over the time and calm myself. This is strange how we do make modifications in our favor to make something unethical turn ethical in our favor. But for how long? Sooner or later the consequences are revealed. How? Mysteriously.

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What happened is that a few weeks ago I hid something from someone thinking that it would create tense situation between us better to keep this hidden as long as possible, for an indefinite time for good but I couldn't. Yesterday, suddenly I got a call about where I was and was asked to go home immediately and call back as she had something to discuss, I sensed something terrible from her voice and rushed home, and guess what, what I thought came to reality, I was fuckl**ed for real. She had got hold of something that I had hidden but unfortunately, I forgot to remove the traces that she had stumbled upon, At that very moment,o0men t iu knew that I was dead for sure. Well, that went on for hours where IO had nothing to say, nothing to defend, other than just listening and saying sorry and promising to never repeat such a thing ever again. Somehow managed to overcome that situation. Wait a minute, there is another mistake that often in such cases we tend to make even more lies to cover the previous one, I believe these make greater graves for the future and turn into terrible disasters to face.

Isn't there another quote like, “Tell me the truth no matter how bitter it is!” We should get used to this, and face the truth no matter how disastrous it is! If we can have this mindset of facing anything that comes in the path of truthfulness then we would be careful of doing anything unjust that is bound to have some negative effects.

You know what, The very first quote about lies and debt to truth, is true, might not be visible on a large scale but do pay attention to yourself, whether you can really tell the lies you had told earlier and if they have ever backfired or not. Can you find any? Especially when you are not the devil, did you get it? Lemme breakdown a little bit, suppose you are someone who tells hundreds of lies every day, it's happening around us, suppose a dishonest shopkeeper, an unethical salesperson, and many more from their respective places can tell shit tons of lies every day. Now among hundreds of lies two or three are negligible, they would throw hundreds more to cover them up so it just doesn’t matter for them. But people like me, who aren’t professional liars, oftentimes try to get away with one or two but unfortunately, they backfire, lol. I repeat, we aren’t liars and so getting stuck is inevitable, may this skill of lying doesn’t get included in my skill set.

So the thing is, don't lie, it's better to face the storm by telling the truth and prevent the reason that might give you thoughts of telling lies which is even better. As we all know, prevention is better than cure.

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Hmm
Let me just assume that you didn’t keep the stuff very well for her not to see it…

Yeah, not an expert as I have already mentioned, lol.

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I can relate to your experience. It's never easy to face the truth, but it's always better in the long run. Like they say, truth will set u free

True indeed.

As you have wished, I hope it never gets included in your skill set. The truth is that lies do a lot of damage at the end. This is why we must endeavour to speak the truth even though it hurts us. Well done.

Yeah, that's what I want as well.