Lying Is Universal - Essay Example

One may lie to others out of sheer concern of not hurting their feelings while others may have made it a habit to lie neglecting fully the cons associated with it that affect society both morally and physically. For our elders who have already passed most parts of their lives such as our grandparents lying is such a trivial phenomenon that they hardly realize when they are undergoing it. Virtually they make themselves believe that whatever they are thinking is right and is based on nothing but facts! It has often been noticed that their thoughts about any matter, in particular, are based on a series of continuous lies that they have made themselves believe as facts rather than otherwise! Even if it is pointed out to them that what they are saying is incorrect they claim to have never lied about anything ever before. Below is a narration of such a happening in which an elderly person lies about certain things without realizing what she is doing.

A few weeks ago on a sunny afternoon, I was lazily reclining on my armchair engrossed in the servitude of my summer vacations.
“I cannot find my Ring! I have looked everywhere!” exclaimed my grandmother. There was nothing else that could have taken my attention off the suspense novel that I was reading other than my grandmother’s remarks. What was so special about them was that she was talking about the so very famous ring that had a myth behind it. It was our family’s ancestral ring. Grandma had narrated to us various suspense stories that were related to the ring. This ring was thought to have encapsulated within it a centuries-old genie that slept for a hundred years and then would get up to fulfill his possessor’s eight wishes. According to my grandma, it had been ninety-nine years since the genie had last woken up. Thus, she was expecting it to get up from his century-old sleep on any coming day. But today, when she had come back into her room after her morning chores she had suddenly realized that she was not wearing her ancestral ring. She could not recall when she had taken it off and where she had put it. The only thing she knew was that she had looked up all the possible places where the ring could supposedly have been but in vain. She could find it nowhere. I and my siblings offered our services to her and each one of us took up a separate room to conduct the “Ring Hunt” in it.

Under the sofa, over the cabinet, beside the refrigerator, and below the room carpet, after about 3 hours of continuous search, there was no place left on our ground floor that we hadn’t looked up. In the meantime when we were busy searching we could continuously hear grandmother complaining to every one of her children and friends over the phone that she had lost the ring and that she suspected the cleaning lady of having stolen her centuries-old ring. She was so very convincingly telling everyone that the maid had taken her ring that the listener would get the idea that grandmother was cent percent sure in her saying and that it was not just an imaginary assumption that she was making. Is she not lying? I thought to myself while looking up the ring in her closet. But she was talking as if she had seen the maid take the ring with her own eyes whereas only a few hours earlier had she mentioned that she did not recall where it was that she had last seen the ring.

The next thing I heard was that she had extended her Pretend-Story of Stolen Ring Even more. She had linked it with every time the maid had ever mentioned to Grandma that she appreciated the antique jewels that she possessed. She quickly rang up her best friend and said to her that she was sure that the maid always eyed the ring and had picked it up as soon she had gotten a chance.

I wasn’t very pleased with the thought. In my opinion, since Grandma had no proof of the ring being stolen she was precisely lying. Depressingly I entered the bathroom to wash my hands. As soon as I looked up into the mirror to put a glance at myself I saw the ring carefully stationed beside the soap dish.
Grandma was overjoyed to see it! As soon as she saw it there she recalled that she had taken it off after she had come back inside from her gardening spree. The only thing that hovered over my mind then was of course, a sigh of relief, and also the thought that sometimes people make themselves so very sure of the lies that they narrate that they forget that the statements that they are making are untrue!