Lies and greed

Lies and greed go hand in hand. People lie because of fear, hate and greed and the lust for more makes one lie again and again making lies and greed run in a self sustainable cycle. So the fear of losing something or the greed to accumulate more and more makes an individual lie fearlessly. A lie is like a key in an envelops of initial hesitation, once the hesitation is given up you begin to use the key to open the doors to all kinds of imaginable demons without any shame or boundaries. Once that phenomenon comes into effect, greed that has been behind the curtain comes into action and further aggravates the situation to become endless. In no time we are lying every few minutes during the day. A study shows habitual liars will atleast lie 10 times a day. They are the "compulsive liars ".   Most of the times the person does not even realize the whirlpool he's in. He deceives himself and without his conscious knowledge, he is lying like anything resulting in a personality disorder. Thus this trait is also linked to psychopathology of mind.He has a lie for every statement, practically every statement where he has to protect himself or where it better suits him to lie and also where it is necessary to come out clean. And the worst part is that habitual liars tend to believe themselves. It is not a part of an act, it is their personality, and this is what they have become. It takes courage ,stamina and integrity to face the practical world honestly and of course resistance is inevitable. Lying is the easy way out of a situation and represents a cowardly side of ones personality. Confessing and apologizing are not "ego friendly". Have you ever thought that we lie when we do not want to explain ourselves, we lie to get something we would not get otherwise, we also lie to prove ourselves right and we lie in every profitable situation.

Lying is an innate quality. Behavioral researcher Wendy Gamble, associate professor at the University of Arizona's School of Family and Consumer Sciences, has considered lying among school kids, finding that youngsters demonstrate a shockingly advanced comprehension of lying as a correspondence and relationship apparatus. “Children are very savvy in using deceit to preserve and maintain relationships. They learn that this behavior helps avoid conflict.” The greed to become physically attractive, power and famous allures the person to lie conveniently. Lies also come into play when one cannot handle the truth and rather live in a life of deception or denial. Having said all this there is type of lying called social or white lies, which is so common that they hardly considered lies because they are not intended to cheat but to respect the other person’s sensitivity. Socially and culturally we should be concerned about the fact that lies are becoming increasingly popular as an admirable survival skill. Long gone are the days when "honesty was the best policy". Now in this era of deception, dishonesty is the latest trend especially if ends up benefitting you.