What
started as an innocent prank in childhood days turned out to be socially &
morally hated trait…Lying. I am sure most of us have mastered the art of lying and there
shouldn’t be any shame in accepting that truth because to err is human.
From
the day we are born, we are told not to tell a lie, never support a liar,
truth is the virtue of a good human being, etc etc. Our psyche is filled with these
words, even before we know what the difference between a lie and a truth is? Mahatma
Gandhi is our model for truth until we’re much older and start testing the boundaries
of truth & lies.
An
economist lies in every child’s heart. They start valuing the return on risk. The risk of naïve
excuses, in mature term- lies. As a child we start giving excuses to
play a little longer, spend time with friends after school, stay out of trouble
or to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. In short, to get out of doing what we
don’t want to do, we take the route of naïve excuses, the little white-lies or
should I say Good lies, since nobody is hurt. Well physically at least. I came
across a great word, Fabulist- A person who lies or invents. It has so
much more panache than liar, don’t you think?
Of
course I want everyone, including Ashvy to speak the truth. Our dearest and mischievous
of all the God’s, Lord Krishna has been documented as a serial liar, of course
for the good of others. We all have (and still do) experimented with lies and
most of us turned out to be good human beings. (I dare not point out anyone, I
say ‘most’ because I never generalize a statement by saying ‘all’) But where
does the naïve excuses end and fabulist begin?
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