Omitting The Truth: The Subtle Art of Lying

Hello Learners

The Lie of Omission can be very tricky, this is when someone did not lie, but also hid the truth... In layman's words, it is when you try to cover up some truth by only telling people the part that won't bother them or put you in trouble.

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This is something we have all done; it happens in our place of work, at home, and is also very common in relationships.

A good example of the Lie of omission in a relationship is if your girlfriend visited her bestie[a male] and they had sex, but when you ask her where she went, she would tell you she visited her bestie, but she won't include the part that they had sex.

She did not lie about visiting someone, but she didn't tell you the truth about what she did there, which could ruin the relationship. People often practice the lie of omission to escape troubles and problems for themselves at the expense of others, cos no guy would love to hear that his babe cheated on him.

This is even worse than telling a lie because the person won't feel guilty since they never lied, they just covered the truth with some other information that happened.

I have done this before, and it has been done to me as well. Let me share both experiences.

During my teenage years, I did a lot of things that my parents would not be proud of. Don't think too far, I didn't commit a crime, but the lifestyle was not something to boast about.

Sometimes I would tell my mum that I want to go and play with my friends, and when I left home, my so-called friends and I would find an uncompleted building, sometimes we would even go to the 3rd floor of some uncompleted building in the community to gamble, we would roll dice...

At first, we did it in public at the side of the field, but there was one man was noticed what we were doing and started complaining, so to hide it from our parents, we no longer did it in public and chose to gamble inside an unfinished building...

I told my mum I was going to play, but I didn't tell her the play was to go and gamble with friends....

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When it happened to me was when my partner told me the screen of my phone was no longer working...

It was last year when I bought an online phone[jambo] in the expectation of an airdrop, but when I got the phone, I didn't like it that much cos of the storage and so many other things, so I hardly use it, but my partner often uses it to watch movies...

I went to school that day only to return home, and she told me that the phone screen had stopped working, but she omitted the truth about what really happened until months later.

She took the phone to the kitchen and when she was cooking, somehow the phone entered the bowl of water she had placed around, she removed it and cleaned it, but the screen was already damaged... She didn't tell me this part cos she was scared of my reaction, so she decided to lie by omission.

I won't say it is bad to use a lie of omission, it depends on the context, but like I said, this is something people do to escape troubles... A lie is a lie, so if you know what you are doing is bad, just stop it or don't do it instead of finding a tricky way to make yourself feel good about it or not letting the other person know what you did by covering it up with a lie of omission.

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