Sunday morning. My dad is watching
TV but not really paying attention to the images on the screen. I sat next to him;
he looks at me and my sister and pronounces some words.
"A lie
that everybody considers to be true and a story that seems to be a lie"
At first
neither my sister nor me could understand was he was talking about. He then
explained that he had heard that phrase from someone else during the weekend.
An eleven year-old girl was almost
raped on her way to school. The situation had been handled by the police who
investigated the case and who were after the man the little girl had accused. A
psychoanalyst had talked to the girl to keep her calm and to get some more
information.
That is the lie.
Two days later the family discovered
that the little girl had invented the whole story because she didn’t want to go
to the school. She had even used her friends in order to make her story more
credible.
That is the story. It got my dad
thinking how was possible that a young girl could have invented such a story just
because she didn’t want go to school.
But the phrase made me think about
something different. There are always lies that everybody consider to be true,
and everybody has some story that seem to be a lie. Many people at least once in their lives had created an
extraordinary story out of a lie and it is so well portrayed that nobody ever
dares to doubt of it.
On the other hand, some stories
are so amazing that seem to be taken from a movie and that is why nobody
believes them.
Now you think. Do you have a lie that everybody considers to be true or a story that
seems to be a lie?
(Third time trying to comment on your post, since the computer got crazy twice... hehe). I don't think I can answer your questions right now without giving them a further thought, otherwise I would be lying. I think that it is important to be honest and truthful with ourselves and the people who sorround us.
ResponderEliminarIn relation to the story you told us, I cannot believe that an eleven year - old girl would make such a story up so as not to go to school. I cannot imagine her parents' embarrassment towards this situation since it is a serious matter. I strongly believe that this child could have made things easier by telling the truth about not wanting to go to school instead of making such a fuss on such a legal and moral severe issue.
It's difficult to find a person who doesn't tell lies. However, I think that they exist, they may be on the verge of extinction, haha.
ResponderEliminarWe all know that in order to tell a lie and make people believe that this is in fact a truth, it is cover by many many other lies. So, it's a serious problem because our society is built up of several lies.
This topic touches me in a very personal way, since I lived with someone who was, and still is a liar (who told and tells not big ones, but Little ones, just in order not to say the truth of the matter) .I don't know why, but when you love someone, you believe this person, and have no idea, not even begin to think about, that their life is a lie. I t is very sad the moment you become aware of that, (although I must say that I was getting suspicious). What I can reflect upon is the following: when do they star lying? why? what terrible situation in their upbringing led them tobe that way?
ResponderEliminarI think that all of us have lied, at least once in our lives. But if I have to be honest, I think that our whole life is a lie. We lie when we say that our lives are okay and that we do not need anything else to be happy, we lie when we say that we are complete, we lie when we agree on doing something, even when that deep inside us we don´t feel like doing it. There will always be something missing in our lives that will not make us feel complete, happy or content. So, when we say "My life is perfect, I don´t need anything else to be happy", that is a lie. It is not possible to have everything at once. You will always need something in order to fill that empty space. I don´t if you can get what I mean,haha...
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