The Cause and Affect of Lying

The Cause and Effect of lying

Lying is all around us; it never stops, every few minutes another lie is being said. It can either benefit everyone, or it can turn out for the worse. Lying is easily influenced among adolescents, as children, parents have always taught their kids that lying is a horrible habit and should not be encouraged, As the children grow up, they learn from everyone around them, and can’t help but start to lie, making lying no longer a bad habit because they witness the lies that are coming out of everyone’s mouth. There are two main types of lies, there’s the occasional white lie that doesn’t seem as bad. Also, there’s the severe lie that hurts the person that was lied to.

A lie is a lie, doesn’t matter if it’s a little white lie or a severe lie, it still ends up hurting everyone’s feelings. People lie for several reasons, but the main reason is, pressure, pressure that is being pushed upon them. Being an adolescent now in days is hard; some are picked on, some are always alone and have no friends, when all they want is acceptance, and others have friends, but just want to be accepted by “The Cool Crowd” to hang out with them. Pressuring them to lie to everyone they know, saying whatever it takes just so they can have their ten minutes of fame. Based on the saying “Easy come easy go,” acceptance comes only for a matter of time, eventually everything goes back to normal. The “loners” will be all alone once again known as just a filled space, the ones who were striving to be part of “The Cool Crowd” will be exiled, this time without any friends seeing how they betrayed their old acquaintances.

Getting into trouble is a situation that everyone tries to avoid, who we try to avoid, it’s obvious that we try to avoid getting in trouble with the authority, who do we consider to be the authority? Everyone, parents, teachers, police, and last but not least the “The Head Honcho” aka boss. Parents look out for the well being in their children, when kids disobey their parents, naturally they try to come up with something so that their punishment will be eased upon them, if they passed their curfew time and parents found out, the lie would be, “Sorry I was on my way but we ran into some delays.” After saying your excuse, parents keep asking questions, and all you keep coming up with is lies for answers. Police look out for the good in everyone, stopping anyone that does not abide by the law. Whether a cop stops you for speeding where you can’t or even looking suspicious.

Teachers and Bosses are the worst of them, they have the most power out of all of them, and they have the power to make you stay after class, redo work that was not done right, and stay there until it is done correctly. Lying to your boss can show up and affect your yearly evaluation and every evaluation after that. Teachers assign projects and it is up to the student to do the work. If not finished or even started when it is due, the old fashion saying “My dog ate it,” but this is the twenty-first century, things have changed since those days. The new excuse now is “I forgot to email it to myself” or “My computer isn’t working at the moment” seeing as how everything is electronically made now. As it is said in the bible “God sees everything, and reveals the truth.” In time the lies will be figured out and all that comes out of it is the fact that trouble gets even worse, and can affect you in any future opportunities.

Boost of self-esteem is the cure to feeling better about yourself, friends help with boosting your self-esteem. Friends only want what’s best for you, just like parents. They are there for you through thick and thin. They can cover for you when you do something bad, they tell you how good you look when you don’t feel “Hot.” The famous line known by everyone, “It looks okay.” When what’s they’re really going saying in their mind is “Didn’t you wear that not to long ago?” If it makes you feel better and you feel comfortable to wear that, they will tell you that it looks good. Of course, everyone will probably notice, depending if they are very detailed and notice. After, when it is brought to the friend the other person they lied to attention, the wonder if you did that intentionally, when all you wanted to do is make them feel better about their outfit. Just because you had good intentions doesn’t exactly mean that they’ll forgive you for telling them something that never was the truth. The result of the situation is that you are now identified as a liar, or in this case a bad friend.

To influence others means to instigate, also very common today, which is caused by lying. Instigate by lying to others, to get what you want happens everywhere, name any place in the world and it’s all filled with lies. Stores, offices, school, even in your own home. Between everyone, lies are being told, are have already been said.

The result of lying can differentiate two ways, good or bad, the good affect of lying is that getting out of trouble may succeed, or end up getting into even more trouble. Maybe be accepted by whomever you would like to accept you, or just another average person. Friends may forgive you, since you told them that your intentions was to make them feel better instead of trying to embarrass them, or end up not having a friend because a true friend should have never like in the first place. Even though they would be hurt they would at least forget about it in the future.

Above all with all the lying going on there’s no reason to trust anyone. So the solution of lying is to simply not lie. In the end you’ll just end up hurting your family and friends. The boss, police, and teachers will see you as a disappointment to them. Also, to the eyes of everyone, you will be known as “A Big Fat Liar”. Doesn’t matter if a lie is small, within time that “little lie” will get bigger and bigger. To the point where your whole life turns into a lie and there is no way to go back and show who you truly are, in the end the one person you end up hurting the most is… Yourself.