Definition Essay: The Different Types Of Lying

Everyone lies about something at some point in their life. The lie could be about something big or just a simple little fib to avoid confrontation. If everyone does it, is it okay? A little white lie can’t hurt anyone can it? White lies are all about the liar choosing what is best to be lied about. I’m sure as a human you yourself have told many of them maybe even without realizing it, I know I have. A white lie I know that I’ve told is telling one of my friends that I liked their new haircut when in reality I hated it. I told them I liked it because I could tell they really liked it and I wouldn’t want to hurt their feelings. Personally I didn’t see anything wrong in saying that because either way there was nothing they could do about
it if I would have said I didn’t like it, it had already been done. White lies are the least harmful in my opinion because I believe most of them are told just to avoid conflicts or unnecessary drama.
Now we are telling most of the truth but maybe not including every detail of the story, that's okay too right? Telling a story and using omission could possibly help you or maybe it can hurt others. If someone asks you what happened and you only tell them what you want to or what you think they should know, it could end up hurting them in the end. I’ve done this by telling a friend who I didn’t invite over to my house when others were invited that we didn’t really do much anyways, just watched TV and went to sleep. I lied. We really went out to eat, went shopping, then came home and watched TV and went to sleep. I did this thinking it would save their feelings and so no drama was started but they found out what happened so it turned into a bug problem. If I would have just told the truth in the beginning she would have been mad but would have probably gotten over it quicker than she did when she found out I lied.
Simply ignoring the facts of a situation can’t possibly be considered lying can it?
According to the definition of the word lie it is. I think people probably do this and don’t even realize the real harm in it but it can in fact hurt you. This example of lying is basically lying to yourself. A way in which I have done this is I knew one of my friends was talking bad about me behind my back but I continued to be her friend. Why? I felt like I had nobody else at that time in my life so I thought I needed her and I thought maybe she was just saying those things because she was around people who didn’t really like me. Come to find out she wasn’t a true friend and I was only hurting myself for staying hers for so
long.
When you get caught doing something wrong it seems you always want to say “it wasn’t me!” knowing good and well whoever caught you knows you did it.
It seems like that’s the first and only thing we can think to say. Most of the time when you’re doing something wrong you have no intentions on getting caught so you don’t know what to do. I’ve only been caught once in my life and I’m not sure that I can share all of that information in here if you know what I mean but I can tell you that it wasn’t a good thing. I tried to lie after the fact that I got caught and that certainly didn’t help me. My mom knew it was me but I thought somehow I could get my way out of it. Needless to say, I was wrong.
Overall, lying is wrong in any way you are using it. There may be times where you feel it necessary or feel that it's okay but really it’s not. We’ve all done it but that doesn’t make it right. You can justify why you’re lying all day long but once you do it and someone gets hurt there's no going
back.