Lying

Nowadays, I find it particularly difficult to go a day without lying. It may sound horrible, but it’s true. Thinking about it, I can’t really think back to a day when I went lie-free. Lies told can be classified into several different categories - whether it be white lies or omission, telling lies is rather tough to avoid.

One of the lies I tell most often is that I’ve already done my homework when I haven’t even looked at it yet. Everyday when they come home, my parents always ask me if I have already done my homework and my usual reply is yes. I think I lie about it for instant gratification – so that my mom and dad will stop bugging me to do it. To make myself feel better, I tell myself that it was just a white lie and that since I’ll end up doing my homework anyway, that the lie will cancel itself out.

Another lie I often tell is that I like something my mom put in my lunchbox when I really found it absolutely gross. My mom has recently started looking up recipes online for easy lunchtime recipes for school and puts something different in mine and my sister’s lunchboxes. I tell her I like something when I really didn’t because I’m afraid of hurting her feelings. But in the end, I’m really only hurting myself because if I tell her I like something, she will just end up making it for me again.

Telling a lie about completed homework is extremely immature, yet I still expect my parents to treat me like a grown up. Another type of lie is a lie of omission. Omission is a type of lying because although one is telling part of the truth, part of the entire truth is being left out.

An example of omission is when I go hang out with a friend and go to the mall and to a movie and when I get home, I tell my mom that I just went to the mall. I leave out part of my story because I only got permission

to go to the mall and not to go to a movie. I also omit part of the story to cover myself and not get into trouble if mom and pop ever found out.

Honestly, I really...