Happy warm mid - week to everyone 🥰💕

We should all agree and know that times has changed and lots of things are not as it use to be. By this I mean that the way things are now in life is not how it use to be. This definitely has made humans to change not even caring to live uprightly.

I believe that there are lies that are justifiable depending on the area and magnitude of the circumstances involved, and sometimes there are situations one must lie to keep being what people see you as or for what you are if you don’t want to become a different person to them.

If we date back the time people started lying, it might never be traced because our forefathers lived on lies to maneuver things during their era and we have some sited instances in the bible where men of God lied 🤥 just to avoid some troubles or circumstances that might bring them down. These are the lies we feel are justifiable but we don’t know if they are in the sight of God.

Looking at the current situation in the world 🌍 and how hard things has become, many individuals are living on lies to save their heads. I have a cousin brother who stays in the United States 🇺🇸, and because people tries to monitor him to know when he is in Nigeria 🇳🇬 as to visit him for help. He will never give his USA number to anyone since he roamed his Nigeria 🇳🇬 numbers and can use them in the United State. So when ever he is in Nigeria, he tells those he doesn’t want to see that he is in the States. Even in the presence of people that are with him, he will lie. Are these kind of lies justifiable? But he is doing it to save his head because he can’t help everyone at the same time.

I have also told lies to save my health in the church groups where we are assigned work on Sundays. Sometimes I will lie that am in disposable and will not be available for duty because my week might have been a ver stressful one. Although its a self volunteer work that no one has the right to question you. But its a work we do for God. If I feel not very energized, then I can decide to rest. I see my lies as something between me and God not human. And I believe in this type of situation and circumstances God will understand. I can not just tell my coordinator that I needed to rest and skip duty because it might seem unserious. This can also be seen as an understandable lie because I don’t want to break down.

Good lies are those that must have saved us from troubles or has taken away some ugly consequences that might bring bad endings. Although many has believed that saying the truth is the best to life, but sometimes truth brings us more harm. When my mother was diagnosed with high BP ( High Blood 🩸 Pressure m) after the death of my elder brother, the doctor said we should not ket her know of it because that might aggravate her condition more. The doctor placed her on drugs after telling her that all she needed is to control her emotion to avoid developing High Blood 🩸 Pressure. This was already a hint to make her slow down her worries. This kind of lies are told to prevent more harm than telling the truth.

This is my response to the #hivelearners featured content for week 166, edition 02, tagged “FOR A REASON”.

Thanks for reading friends 🥰💕

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