There was a time when I hated liars. Now I’m one of them. All
of a sudden there is this exponential rise in the no of lies that I say to the nearest
of the near ones that I have. There are times when there was no possible reason
to tell a lie and the truth itself would have sufficed but still I took the dishonest path.
After all this lying around what I have
realized is that the society is bound together on these thin string of lies.
What would happen if all of a sudden we all were deprived of this super-power of lying?
For everything people asked, you would be bound to give the truthfull response. You go to a friends party and be honest about how it sucks. When your dear one tries to impress
you with her all new recipe you can’t be honest about how you mom is the best cook in
the world and no matter how much she tries she can never beat her. You would burp out how your
professor is a moron right in front of him. You would honestly tell your boss
that he is an asshole and your colleague that he is the biggest idiot that you
have ever seen. There would be a nuclear apocalypse within weeks if nations
became such honest.
The most important aspect of this lying is that after all
this lying, and when you have to second it with another lie only to think of a
third one to cover them all up, is that slowly you program you mind in believing
in all these made up stuff. This helps because if you believe the stuff to be
true then you no longer need to worry about your facial expressions or cover
stories as everything becomes natural.
Today I
lie so easily to my parents to my teachers to everyone around me all so easily
because of this program that is continuously running in my mind. And all of a
sudden everyone is happy. People say that the greatest invention of mankind is
probably fire or the wheel but I would say that the greatest invention of
mankind is the art of lying.
It’s
not that I've not been in the receiving end of all this lying. False
information is fed to us at every step of our lives. That yoghurt that they
claim to be fat free is full of fat, the magical effects of cosmetics and homoeopathy is a myth, maybe actually the moon landings are all made up, or the country is
run by some secret organization, and 9-11 was planned and Osama isn't actually
dead. Who know the truth? I mean WikiLeaks is blowing up facts every now and
then.
So when
I had to feed this idea into your mind (yes I'm talking to you) I did it
through the art of lying and no matter how much I try I know that this idea
that I have planted in your mind is so firmly embedded that it has got nowhere
to go. And remember that I want this idea to be there, all that I want is for you to understand that
now that everything is how they are supposed to be, the truth is that I'm the
same guy that you knew in the first place and this new me, well it isn't me, It’s
just a made up person to make you believe in all those lies and that person isn't me.
