Aug 18, 2023
I hate liars.
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I hate liars.
Hmm.. I'm probably over thinking things but.. I'm not stupid.
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Liars of the Small Things
Liars. We've all encountered them in one form or another. Some of us only need to look in the mirror to know what I'm talking about. However, I am talking about a particular class of liar. Not a person who lies about big, life-changing things, but a liar of the small things - someone who may aggrandize themselves and their actions to make themselves a cut above the rest. The Internet is a particularly hospitable environment for these sort of liars. After all, who can completely disprove that you didn't "get that 20 and 0 score in an FPS" or "that you did that 1080 on your skateboard"? And even if they somehow could, it's not like these lies harm anyone - how could saying that you're rich or an insider do that? These are the type of lies that even good folk may find themselves saying. And in a world of anonymity, they are near perfect in their undetectability and their inability to hurt others. ---- I can certainly understand why people would lie like this. They set you apart from the crowd and gives you a couple minutes of limelight. And best of all, it affects no one negatively. Everyone wins. You were probably doing the activity in question anyway, just not as accomplished as you claim. But you believe you can get there eventually. It's perfectly harmless. At least to everyone but you. Now this isn't a talk about how it's wrong to lie. You probably heard it far too many times from your school, religious texts, or parents, so I don't need to go down that route. To me, if you've made the decision to lie, you've not worried about the morality of it - you are thinking about value, the pros and cons of saying said lie. If you aren't, you are either stupid or a compulsive liar. ---- Now that that's out of the way, I am here to talk about value, the two cons that most don't think about when making a small lie. They are the two cons that many liars of the small things do miss- and why they start spiraling downwards into being the ever so delightful pathological liar. The first con. You lie about something that bolsters your reputation. That infinitesimally small chance that someone calls you out doesn't come. You preen in the limelight and the adoring gazes of your peers. Weeks, days, hours later... you're out of the limelight again. Well, you can't just simply say the same thing again - you have to be greater now. And thus another lie is told. I think you can see where this is going. In this spiral, there comes a point where your reputation becomes too big for you, and the small lie is no longer small. And everything you've lied about unravels. Buuuut... most liars believe they'll never get caught, so perhaps this argument may not be convincing for them. So I propose another scenario. What happens when you succeed for real? A genuine success that really brings out your all. The type of success where you're shivering in delight, the words just ready to burst out of your tongue (or perhaps your fingers). You take out your phone or perhaps load your chat client - and then it hits you, your good humor crushed like a stomped can. You already said you did that - or perhaps you've already claimed to be a step beyond your success. Who could genuinely appreciate the magnitude of your success? Who can share your joy and happiness? Who could you tell without looking like a liar? And that may very well be the most compelling reason to avoid the small lies. Not simply because it's immoral to lie to your friends or that small lies eventually snowball to large ones... but that they force you to lie more, cheapen your successes, and rob you of the chance to share your elation of sharing that success. I don't know, but to me, being unable to share your greatest triumphs is far too much of a cost for the fifteen seconds of fame a lie may bring.