Lie to Save the Truth

Life has taught me a bitter lesson that being truthful is not so fruitful, sometimes harmless lies can save a lot. So what's harmless lies and what does it save? These two things are subjective and depend on the situation. Things that are suitable for me might not be like that for you, so figure out what works best for you.

There was a time when I used to be carefree with no one to say anything over me as that would backfire to them. So being truthful or straightforward with my words wasn’t any problem as I wouldn’t care much about the opposite, no scope for them to disagree as I wouldn’t care about anything at all. With time, my feelings have changed, my stone-hearted heart has melted, and I have started to care and give importance which empowered the other end to have some rights over me. With time it keeps growing and once we start a journey, there is no way back without damage, that's not an option anymore. So the ending note is that I am not a carefree person anymore, there are people whom I need to obey more or less, listen to them, and respect their rights over me.

While writing this, I am on a bus, returning home, a three to four-hour bus journey of 120 km from my hometown. But, I am forbidden to do bus journeys, they say it's not safe, which makes them tense. They prefer train journeys above all as they are quite safer compared to road journeys. I was at the railway station but the train I wanted to go on was late for today. It would be delayed for more than three to four hours and the next one is also four hours from the time I had stepped in. So I could just sit there and keep waiting for a train doing nothing or I could just step out of the railway station and take a bus which would drop me home by the time I would step into the next train. What should I do? What would you do? Keeping in mind that they would yell at you and would be worried throughout your whole journey.

What I did was I just lied to avoid all the fuss. No more yelling or scope to make them worried, I just said the train was one hour late, and by that time I had travelled quite a distance. Kept chatting over other topics, took a nap, and reached home in time. No extra fuss or anything, did this lie of mine harm anyone? No, in fact, it saved some spicy conversation and saved someone from worrying for hours. Isn't it forgiving? I pray and hope that the Almighty would forgive these lies that are meant to be for our good, not for the sake of anyone’s harm.

I had chosen the good one because the better one wasn’t suitable enough for me in that situation to have proper control.