Truth, Lies and the grey areas

There would not be a single hand standing on the side which says that it is good to tell a lie. No matter to what religion, cast or nationality we belong to, in the end we all mutually believe and agree that everyone should speak truth. But then what about the third kind? The ridicule of the truth itself is that there are hardly any circumstances where we say either a truth or a lie. Delicacy of the situation, wrong timings, selfishness, fear, concern, love and hate are some of the reasons forcing us to mold the truth in a design that it doesn’t fit in any of the above category. We call it the Grey Areas!

Manipulating truth is sometimes as indispensable as breathing air. But how to decide that when it is necessary to do this expurgation and when it isn’t? That is something that could vary from one individual to the other. Generally the molding that we do for our own interests is considered to be unjust, but then again who is going to decide? Our politicians, bureaucrats, civil servants and even common people have their own grey areas. For people like lawyers, exploitation of truth is the bread and butter. Hence, from the ruler to the one, sitting at a fruit stall everyone feels it their astuteness to manage saying what sounds good!

We find many people who declare that they can not stand a lie. The question that is needed to be asked here is that are they really willing to listen to a naked reality and what if it is about there own self? The answer is by and large in negative. We want to listen what we like. From inside we hope and pray that it may turn out to be true and when that doesn’t happen we tend to start behaving irrationally. On the other hand grey areas suit everyone. It is a convenient option that makes us feel satisfied and glad at the end of it. The thing is that we prefer to pick the truths of our own choice.

A leader will sing odes of love for humanity and expresses his desperation to spread peace and justice on the land. He definitely wants to do that, till the time he doesn’t get a hold on the seat of his dreams. After then of course priorities are different. One party shout aloud to reveal the scratchiest facts of the rival party but ignores even the crystal clear realities of their own dark sides in order to gain sympathies of masses. Contempt of court, suo-moto, reconciliations, memo-gate and all the other ongoing hit numbers of the court rooms are also revolving around the stretching and molding of truth. They twist the fact in a way that it goes in there favor and neglect the one that is against their respectable clients.

Likewise a marketing head of a company tells you all the good things about his product, but what about the bad ones? No, they are sternly trained that the bad things are supposed to be discussed only in the board meetings and then are better being forgotten. In the same way a shopkeeper put all the fresh peaces on the top of the counter and once you get your eyes off, he’ll add few of the rotten ones in your bag as well. Hiding is not lying right!

And then the news channels playing tug-of-war with each other, philanthropically raising death tolls before proper substantiation and exploiting non issues to get their ratings and to claim the number one slot are also part of the game.

Thus, in the end we can safely say that we never lie, it is just the other way out to get things done!