Growing up, we were told that if we told lies, we would go to "Hell", and we would be so proud of ourselves in those moments when we told the truth.
"I want to see a human who hasn't lied before." If I see that human, I have some questions to ask them. I know often some people claim that they haven't lied before "like since they were born" and now they are getting old and they still haven't told a lie, "how true is that?". Thinking about it, maybe they haven't found themselves in a situation where lying is the only way out.
People tell lies for different reasons, best known to them, but basically, we all lie to get ourselves out of unpleasant situations. I wanted to say "everybody lies for a reason" but then thinking about the fact that I don't know the reasons behind other people's lies, so I have to focus on myself, I don't have to vouch for people I don't know thereby causing myself to go to jail if something happens.
I happen to know someone who works very close to me at the office, and often I would sit in my office with my hands covering my mouth because I wouldn't want to scream, so the other party on the phone with him wouldn't notice anything. And after the call had ended, I would walk out to him and be like "sir," then he would smile and reply "Tari this our work if you don't lie it won't work o" sometimes I claim like I know the reasons why he is telling all those lies but then at the same time I would be like "nobody will beat you even if you tell truth".
So recent lie I told: early part of the year, I've been applying for different jobs, so fortunately one reached out to me and I did the other stages involved, the whole process was way much to the point that I wanted to give up but then I told myself, what's the essence of giving up when I've already come this far.
So I put in the effort and time, often taking some alone time to hide somewhere around my office premises to finish up whatever task I was given. So after the whole six stages were over, I thought everything was done. When I got an email inviting me to a physical interview, the timing was very short. And the worst part of the whole thing was that the company isn't located in the state I'm based in, so I have to travel outside of my state.
Traveling outside my state isn't the problem, the problem is what to tell my current company about my forthcoming absence. Firstly, I told my company's secretary about the interview because she is the one person who has been aware of the whole process, so I told her about the physical interview, and she was like "think of a lie that you would tell the management".
I got home that day and was bothered with what I was gonna tell the management of the company, so that night different things were roaming my head, when I got to the office the next day, I shared the lies that I could think of with the secretary and she was like "Tari no, think of something else again". At this point, I was out of lies, then one finally came after having a conversation with my best friend.
So the whole idea was to call the head of operations in the company on the day of my journey, that something had happened at home, and I needed to travel that morning because it was urgent. So the day finally came, and I did what I had planned for some days. I don't know if you wanna hear the lie I told, though.
Well, I'm still gonna share it, I told the head of operations that a close relative of mine collapsed, so I had to travel back home. "Yeah, that's it".
I lied because I couldn't tell my employer that I'm going for a job interview, what if I get fired immediately, and the other one I'm going to isn't certain that I'd be employed. If I don't get employed, at least I still have a job I'd be falling back on rather than falling back on unemployment. So people tell lies for different reasons, sometimes the truth is better told, but then in certain situations, the truth won't do you any good.
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