As children, one of the first virtues that the adults more often than not tend to teach us is honesty; to speak the truth. However, what happens to us as we grow up? Is it not that, as children, we see through the hypocrisy of adults? We see that the same adults, that expect us to be honest, walk around with chunks of deceitness and lies. Do we not, then, rationalise it to ourselves that lying is okay? Like, 'So what if they want me to be honest! They are bloody liars as well'
There is a phase in life when lying feels good. It buys you what you truly crave; not what you wish that you want but what you desperately want but can't articulate and ask for. It's this borderline ignorance of what we truly want that becomes the mother of all sort of deceitness and dishonesty. We go out of our way and make henious lies with the wish to get what we desperately crave.
But that's the thing! You do end up getting that, may be. But something begins to crackle up within at the same time. You don't feel as whole again, even though your cravings are now met. You begin to feel ashamed. Inadequate. Confused. And so now, to make up for the cracks, you bend and twist things even more. You spell more lies. The more you do it, though it seems that you're inching closer to somewhere peaceful, you're actually cracking up the wall more and more. One small lie begs for twenty other lies. And those in turn, make up a big lie. And such big sized lies end up consuming us.
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