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| "I'm a real boy"- Pinnochio Image: Copyright The Walt Disney Company |
When I think about lying I often forget to realize that not everyone is as honest as I am or as they should be. Because of this, I tend to be overly sensitive when I find out that I was lied to.
It is curious to think that any one person could be telling a lie without knowing that they are. In the essay "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson, she explores the thought of how lies are incorporated into everyday life. According to this essay, "We lie. We all do. We exaggerate we minimize, we avoid confrontation, we spare people's feelings, we conveniently forget, we keep secrets, we justify lying to the big-guy institutions."
That statement made me really contemplate how honest I truly am.
Life without lying is a very difficult one, even maybe impossible. As I said earlier, I try to live my life as honest as can be (I am terrible at lying anyways). The subjective words being 'as I can be'. I am a makeup artist part time, and I never realized that something as coloring your hair and doing your makeup could be considered a "lie" until now. Even with this knowledge, I try to think that there is some spectrum of every kind of lying.
It could range from a simple white lie like telling your spouse that the food that they just slaved 4 hours on making, was great, when in all actuality it was a mere okay, or wearing makeup and coloring your hair to appear somewhat presentable.
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| Me with no Makeup Me starting my makeup Finished product (SOO MUCH BETTER WITH MAKEUP! ) |
The other side of the spectrum would be when someone blatantly looks at someone and lie to their face. An example of this is the oh so funny "my dog ate my homework" excuse.
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All in all I take away the fact that lying occurs around us without even noticing. I do it, you do it, I am pretty sure the Pope even does it. It is something that unless consciously making an effort to not lie, even the honest of honest people are guilty of it.
I think that its humorous that your mom would tell you a white lie in order to catch you in a lie, how ironic.
ReplyDeleteMore so, I like that you used personal appeal as an audience appeal because it gave your response flavor.
And just so you know the Pope does lie. He lied about the Cardinals embezzlement in churches around Europe (somewhere, I can't remember right now).
Crystal,
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that are parents have the intuition to know when we lie to them! No matter how hard I kept a straight face, my mother would always recognize that I was lying to her. I really like the way you used personal experiences relating to the topic. Your insights bring life to your blog. I really appreciate what you had to say on this topic. But my only suggestion would be to change the layout style of you blog. Try not to center every picture, right or left justify it. All in all, great work!
Your blogs are always so entertaining! I like the way your write, lots of stories and interesting thoughts to tie everything together. Your colors are cute but professional!
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