I'd Rather Never Lie Again, Ever

9 months ago

Ah yes, finally I can write something again. Won't be as busy after Monday so I can write some more about many things!!! Hello August 1st! 😍

Unfortunately I wasn't able to finish this post on time because it was the last day of my TESDA class yesterday. (Oh yeahhhh. Topic for another day though.) But of course I will still post this now but in another community instead.

Today's topic is all about one of the prompts in Weekend Experiences community. (Deadline is already over so I just won't post this there anymore...) For Lies or Truth, I'd rather Lose the Ability to Lie Forever instead of having to believe everything I'm ever told. Yes this can be a double edged sword but it doesn't matter to me at this point.

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Why Choose That Option

The latter is not for me because I don't want to be the ignorant fool. That's not the best thing for anyone to have. I'd rather not lie at all if I could change my bad habits in an instant.

Actually anyone should be able to not lie about anything but do we want to? As an adult there was a time when I hated how children are taught not to lie only to be disappointed as a grown-up. Adults blatantly lie all the time! Wtf right? People are doing it freely and many don't even get any consequences! What's wrong with this world eh?!? 💔

Even up to 4 and 5 years or so ago I was complaining about it online. 😂 Yes I know sales is dirty but does it have to be? It's not as disgusting as politics and big corporate businesses but it's still people deceive each other. But of course I have finally accepted how we humans are really flawed. Still it is always disappointing to see what we are doing to ourselves.

Because I was taught as a kid that lying is bad, I don't really do it as much as others do. As far as I know I lie minimally compared to everyone I've encountered. And so I really thought I could stop what little lying I did as soon as I decided to but it's not easy at all. 😢 (If you've been reading my posts since this Lent then you'd know why I made the decision.)

Basically lying is one of the things people shouldn't do according to the 10 Commandments of God. And since Lent I've been living life as a better Catholic than I used to be. I've actually improved a lot but it's still not enough. 💔 I know I am still far, far away from even becoming a saint! Oh my it's truly not easy at all. 😭

_{Some of the images of saints that I apparently have at home.}

People Lie For Self Protection/Preservation

In the past months since May, I thought I could stop lying about anything. I even tried to make it my goal to never commit a sin in a week but nooooo! How disappointing I could not do it at all! 😢

There will always be a situation that comes up and then I'm back to one or two of my old habits. Smh Ugh, I don't know how the saints did it but maybe I really need to pray more than I do now? 🤔 I've yet to read the Diary of St. Faustina. Haha.

Anyway let me give you an example of some of the lies I did after Lent. To some, cheating on a short quiz is just a small thing but for me now it's already a grave sin. 😅 Another one is, lying about not having small change may not be a bad thing for some but to me it was already a big dirty stain on my soul. 😢 (It even shocked me to realize that some lies are already automatic! I have to make an effort to notice or else!)

Oh I have never felt so dirty in my life after my Catholic renewal. Yes, there was a time I really felt the dirt on my soul. I'm not kidding! 😫 I never thought I would experience such in my entire life but I did! I think it happened just once in June or sometime ago but heck...

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Lately it's not been happening anymore but still the feeling was quite weird! I could not shake it off (like it's something dirty on the skin that one could never ever remove!). No matter what I did it would not disappear until I confessed all the sins for that week. Ugh. Thank you Lord for the sacrament of confession. 🙏 ❤️ (Imagine if we all could feel the dirt everytime we sin, I don't think anyone would ever do such again!)

Okay okay I don't wanna get off topic but that's one of the reasons why I wanna have the ability to never lie again. Actually on Sunday I even prayed for it. (Because I just came from a whole day recollection on Saturday and whoa I learned a lot. Stay tuned for my post about that. Haha.)

Would The Cons Outweigh The Pros?

Of course I have thought about not lying ever again. What would happen to me on Earth if I did such all the time? To put it simply, I will use my above examples.

If I didn't do a tiny bit of cheating on the quizzes or any difficult exam, I would probably fail, like really fail. (Because the lessons are difficult to master and I don't have enough time to study/review outside the class.) And we don't want that happening, right?

I would not get the certificate for the classes I joined if that happened. It means I would have to re-enroll or spend money to join a different institution to learn such. On a positive note, that would mean no new stains on my soul. 🌟

Deliberately lying and then confessing them afterwards is like saying sorry and not being sorry at all. 💔 That's definitely wrong but such is human life since ancient times... 😔 And that's not good for my hope to be as pure as possible.

Actually I rarely did such back when I was a student. From what I remember, I think I only did it like less than 5 times in my entire student life. 🤔 I could be wrong but anyway as an adult I resorted to such in every quiz/exam in July! What a shocker. (Only because it's really quite a difficult thing to learn. 😅)

_{The controversially designed 1000 peso bills.}

In the case of the "no small change" for a bill, it would mean I would inconvenience myself to get those coins or smaller bills from my wallet/pouch. It's an easy thing to do but we all have some form of laziness, right? Of course not lying about that would mean a better conscience and no negative points in heaven. 👍

Thankfully I eventually stopped doing the latter one. But of course I'm still no saint. Ah life...

Those are just "insignificant" situations, what more when it comes to bigger ones? If I continue to lie about bigger issues then my human life would get better but my soul would get darker and darker without confession. And to us Catholics that means a greater chance of being in hell after death. Haha. ☠️

I don't want that so I would rather not lie forever and ever if I could do it. There's no magic pill or whatever to stop doing such. Wish there is but we can only dream because most people would rather not try stopping themselves to commit sins. Changing decades old bad habits is not easy... And so this post about it.

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Would I Want A World Free of Lying?

Just an additional thought... If nobody ever lied perhaps we'd be living in the world of that movie: The Invention of Lying.

It's funny to watch but perhaps only because we've all lied and are still lying in big and small ways. I'm not even the kind of person in that fictional world yet but maybe being frank and straight to the point is a different matter. 🤔

Anyway hope everyone had an awesome weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts too in the comment section. 😉

XOXO,
@artgirl