Was that a deep lie? No it wasn't

There was a time a friend of mine decided to do away with his phone that seemed to be after his life. The phone behaved as if it was infested by a marine spirit because some weeks the battery would last on an average level and some weeks it would find it very difficult to save battery even after a full charge. The craziest thing is that the phone had been repaired up to three times, the battery had been changed, and in those periods after repair, the phone stayed normal until it went back to the default problem after a couple of days.

It was an Oppo product, a very costly phone, and with that, my guy decided he wanted to sell it out since he couldn’t just dump it or dash it out.

"How? Who's going to buy it? How are you going to explain to the buyer the problems? Are you going to lie and cheat the person?"

"Lie keh? It's very simple na. I'll honestly tell the buyer that the battery has issues and they only need to replace the battery. That's all. Or is that a lie? Is the battery not the problem?"

The question at the end of his justified planned approach got me dumbfounded.

So he sold the phone and was honest a bit with his painted lie; he told the guy that bought it that the phone had only a battery issue and that if the battery was fixed, then the phone would work normally. The phone was sold at a high price too because it was looking neat and unscratched on the hardware.

Guess what? After two weeks, the buyer came looking for my guy. That particular afternoon, we were in the love garden in our department where my friend sighted the guy that bought the phone coming. He sensed he was coming to look for him, so he ran off the scene and told me to cover for him in case he asked about him.

Long story short, the buyer requested a refund but my friend refused, insisting that the phone developed the bigger fault in the hands of the buyer. It was really a hot, long period of issues and dragging, and after the whole thing, my friend was able to cough out 60% of the money and gave it back after lecturers were dragged into the issue.

In this situation, my friend won, and he bragged about it. And that's what lies of omission can do. Oftentimes, it's purely cheating, even though people use it to cover up by avoiding saying the harsh deeper truth.

Just like the way the world is, if the lie is in your favour, it becomes advantageous and one can call it being smart. But when the harshness of the lie is telling on someone, it becomes as hurtful as the main lie.

To me, a lie of omission is as bad as an outright lie. It doesn't save any situation.

Thanks for reading.

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