Volume 65 December 2026-January 2026 : Reality Hub

 

I am sure you have read the above title over and over again to try and make sense of it. I hope you succeeded… Picture yourself in a room, and before you is a powerpoint presentation and all the dishonesty in any shape or form that you have allowed yourself to do on that day is neatly typed on the left side-bolded and underlined…. and on the far right beside every lie is ‘a’ truth that you could have told in every specific circumstance. How would that make you feel?

The sad TRUTH is that we are seemingly HAPPY and comfortable with lying and being dishonest. We are dishonest in our workplaces, in our homes, in our social circles…and even with ourselves! Lying has become a gateway to all of life’s realities...it is deemed normal, and the truth has become an unattainable fantasy!

We blame the government for a lot of things in our health and education systems…we blame God for not putting a stop to natural disasters. When last did you sit down with yourself and thought  YOU were to blame for a lot of what happens around the world…? yes I said it….! We are individually…..and as a society…and nationally to blame for a lot of things because we are doing so much…but yet forget something seemingly small but yet so profound - TRUTH! Why do people lie? And why are we scared of telling the truth? Okay I know that we all find ourselves in tight situations sometimes; where telling the truth will either land you in prison, render you jobless, friendless, divorced or dead.

But is a lie worth more than the truth? Everything aside. Let us talk about quality of your reputation…and your value as a person. Would you rather walk away from the relieving nature of ‘truth’ and carry a heavy burden of lies?

But come on! …surely a ‘white lie’ would not hurt, right? I mean it is only small….it was for a good course, right? I mean you could have lost something big here! I mean you just had to tell a ‘small lie’ and you got a promotion, or you did not get fined by the police… and well you have been working so hard and you need rest and you owed it to yourself to get a day off so you just called in sick this morning and lied to your boss .

And that is okay, right? And oh let us not forget that girl who just will not stop calling you, you told her that you saw her missed calls and you did not have airtime in your phone to respond. Surely that is allowed, I mean you did not want to hurt her feelings. NO! ….NO! and NO! -to everything! Lying is downright wrong! No matter the situation! Here is my theology: in any given circumstance you should have approximately  five seconds to respond either with a lie, or with the truth. The truth may be as equally painful as a lie… but it is rewarding.

Ok, say you have to lie to save your marriage…your relationship…or your job? What does that say about these things? Are you okay with laying a foundation of dishonesty that you might have to sit on but also to carry on your head as you progress in life?

Do you know that it takes so much effort to lie…..well unless of course you are a professional liar? But still you have to think about it and you use more energy and you have to use more lies and tactics in order to cover up the lies you have already told….and it still blows up in your face. So much for the effort you put in!

Sometimes you get away with a lying...But it will backfire in one way or another…. lies are like shadows they will follow you around…and they are brutal shadows that will hunt you down. And mind you there is no such thing as a ‘white lie’ unless of course you have physically painted it to look much purer, but it is STILL A LIE. Small lies build up overtime and become habits that are difficult to shake off.…but remember every bad habit ends with the willingness to let lose of it.

What kind of person are you allowing yourself to become? When you constantly resort to lying and dishonesty in all your dealings? I mean really some things are just unacceptable. If you are a parent, guardian, sibling, teacher etc…I urge you to be a shining example to this generation and the next. The Bible says the truth will set you free! Why do we choose to like in bondage when there is so much freedom in there in truth! I think we have all convinced ourselves that lying is okay…and that it is acceptable sometimes and not in other situations. Well, I acknowledge the fact that I am a dreamer and an opportunist ….our society will not change overnight..But the change can happen. Like Martin Luther King...I have a dream: that one day we will become and aspire to be honest people. And we will put off lying and hold onto the truth.

And like Michael Jackson would sing…it starts with the man in the mirror...You! And me! I am trying to be honest in all that I do and in all that I say…what about you? I believe God created us to be honest like him….He made us to be just like Him. He has given us the capacity to be honest. It is not impossible... Would it really kill you to be honest for one day! If you make a habit to be honest…it will become normal...It will become a reality and Lying will be a forgotten past. Let’s do this!  ENDS

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