There have been many on and off moments between me and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. We keep fighting even though we have never met. I learn from him, I try to reason out a few things to him, I feel what he did was a little “नौटंकी”, but still was pragmatic in certain cases, so now given choice I would still hold on to one nice memory.
It is one of the most genuine moments in my life which keeps me true company. I do keep rewinding to the moment as it showed my true innocence. But I wouldn't state it here. There is a direction which it led me to. And now I'm following it!
It takes a lot of daring to tell the truth. So here is my perspective of truth – A Lie !
The lie which holds the truth together.
In a world where truth is least rewarding, people deflect to a path of lies.
A lie which keeps people happy.
A lie which keeps a relationship on its track.
A lie which bridges the gap of ever drifting emotions.
A lie which might fall yet stall uncertainty.
A lie which lets your life camp in a safe, warm place.
A lie which would put the receiver to eternal comfort .
But how good a lie can be, can it exceed your moral obligation of conveying your distress and disguise your current state of agony and pain into a non existent, unrealistic, imaginary cloud of happiness. A delusion which you created just to please and reassure your love. It is a measure you take, to be in a state of being unaffected.
Certainly, it would require a great lie and consequent smaller lies to support your mother lie and sustain its credibility. But if your love isn't capable of finding the truth it will haunt you deeply.
It imposes self questioning and traces your ability to lie. It poses a serious threat so as to evaluate yourself. It results in a self appraisal which has no up side, but only a down hill in the direction of descent to find a low point in your own self.
Evaluation: now you are a certified “present hedonistic narcissist”, who cares at least to lie !
Your actions as it may sound, looks to please others as to keep their lives unaffected but it questions your very stance on ethical transparency and makes cheating a way of life. It further questions the fact, that trust builds a relationship whereas self aligning lies grow into a pile of hidden animosity. It would surface once the mirage of your happiness is disturbed, and that is done just by coming close to the truth.
The conscious lie which you maintain to hold a clean image would have subconscious impact on your mind. The constant reaffirmations of the same thought would make it as clean as truth. The inhibition which you created would live a life of its own and dictate terms to you. As you know from history, nobody likes a “dictator”, he or she is going to be dethroned with immediate effect once the suppressed thoughts burst out in the open and makes its true color, the color of your world.
A lie would adulterate an ordinary corrupt mind into a mind which makes consistent unethical decisions. It is like a drug dealer who started to sell drugs in order to fulfill his narcotic needs. It doesn't know when to stop, when to deal and when to shut up!
A disturbed mind with constant fear of revealing a lie would suck your life into a swirl of negative emotions and thus making the mind fit only for misuse. The misuse could be damaging. The damage is not only for your love, but for an entire conscious human being – YOU, who chose the path of lies when there was a dispute to resolve within oneself.
Lies have become a lifestyle, not speaking the truth alone doesn't qualify as a lie, the process of manipulating the truth to fit a waist of untruth also qualifies as one.
Yet people enjoy a lie, relish a lie and live with a lie. Some people even crave for a lie. But at the end of the day, all that remains is a bowl of emptiness. After one point in time, the mind is trained in a way to respond involuntarily to a lie with another lie. And when that happens, “The Joker” in you has succeeded and leads to a path of untraceable lies.
Soon these lies start evolving into a big genuine lie, which would rather glitter as a visible early morning Venus which started out late that evening!
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