Write An Essay About The Ways We Lie

We usually do it to keep ourselves out of trouble, sometimes we’ll even do it to impress others. We all do it though. Some are just little white lies; others are much more severe. Our attentions are sometimes pure. We may lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. Other times the deception may not be so innocent. Many things may cause a person to lie but the effects may still be dangerous either way. The most common reason we all lie is to avoid punishment. It started as a kid, we broke mom’s vase and blamed it on our sister. Then when we get older, we tell our parents we got a B on our test versus a D. Later, we’ll tell our bosses a crazy story to avoid a derogatory mark on our file that may result in termination. Bottom line, no one wants to quarrel, so we tell lies to cover ourselves.

Society is another huge reason we lie. There is no internal setting in our brain telling us to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week, so sometimes we call in sick when really, we just need a day off. Instinctively, we don’t know to drive 55 mph, we learn that from the laws set by government. So if we get pulled over we’ll lie to the officer about why we were going so fast. When the laws are unreasonable or excessive we tend to bend the truth a bit. As the years, have gone on, more laws have been created, thus inducing more lies. Lying affects your relationships in a drastic way. Once you’ve lied to someone so many times you may have lost their trust. Not only that, but you make the person you’re lying to feel disrespected, or foolish. If you are not trusted, weather by a significant other, friend, or family; your relationship will never be the same. There’s a saying, that trust is like a mirror, once broken you may get hurt trying to put it back together. Even then, you can’t look at it the same way you once