On a normal ground ehn, lie is something that everyone has grown up to mix with in the system and some would even categorize lies in various aspects just for justification purposes, saying we have different kinds of lies which are:
- White lie: A lie not to hurt people or not far from truth
- Red lie: Chronic lie that could shut the door of heaven if there is any
- Rainbow lie: Lies that are mixed with truth just to give a perfect press statement, lol.
Like I can't just laugh cos at the end of the day "A Lie Remains A Lie"
However, as humans, we love to care for the ones we love by ensuring they are not hurt in anyway. We want to keep them safe and even if there's anything that would break them physically or emotionally, we want to try our best to avoid it if we truly care about them.
With this kind of feelings that I have towards my loved ones and thinking through the Hive Learners prompt of "Lie Of Omission", that at first it was an omission of truth from what you want to say but because you hid it then it turned out to be that you lied to the person and it got me thinking for a while; have I ever omitted the truth to someone I care for because it would hurt my loved one? Have I ever been lied to and realized later that it was due to the fact that the person was preventing me from feeling hurt? How did I feel?
For me, I prefer feeling the hurt of a truth than being happy with a lie. That may sound too much but I know what I want and in as much as I wouldn't want that to be done to me, I wouldn't wanna do that to someone I claim to love.
Not very much people will be free from not being in a situation of wanting to omit a part of truth from someone we care for.
I remember getting hold of an information from someone that someone so close to me was confiding in a neighborhood friend but that so-called confidant is busy disclosing all her confidential information to others.
How do we say this to someone who has always been betrayed by people she chooses to trust with her life. My twin sis and I (my bestie in crime) decided to tell her to avoid further discussion about herself and most especially her marital sexual life with this person. So we called her, sat her down and critically warned her in such a way that she would realize that even the worst things she has confided in the woman has been let loose to the public without actually telling her the exact confidential things we heard .
If that's an omission, I don't know but I know some situations like that had happened and we would always wanna prevent our loved ones from being hurt. We would actually hint what happened but might not be saying exactly how it happened and that's why they are "SILENT TRUTH BUT IN SHADOWS" for who gets to calmly and wisely listen.
Aside this, if I feel like the whole mentioning of it will lead me to lying then keeping mute about it and waiting for a later time to disclose it or rather keep it in my big tommy of secret will be much better.
But if aside this context, and it turns out to be lie of omission in committing disloyal act between marital partners, business partners or between an employer to an employee, it is dangerous to whatever relationship it is and will end up being a break of trust and betrayal of the highest order.
It will be far better not attempting to do it in the first place than omitting the truth of what was done because we want to avoid putting ourselves in trouble.
This is my take on the Hive Learners community prompt and I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here.
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