When Was Your First Lie?
2009 November 4
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No one intended to grow up into a liar, but lies just seem like a part of life. Inevitable.
- Today I finished viewing the old film Trueman Show. Trueman lived in a huge lie for thirty years and he finally escaped, but to where? The world outside the Seahaven, just like Christof said, is just a even huger place filled with more lies. Unless he would live like Forest Gump, who believes that life is like a box of chocolate and full of expectation, if so, if would be good ending, but the film did not end in that way, I guess, life full of suspection is not bad.
- Who knows? Perhaps the God we are believing in is now watching our lives like Christof watching Trueman’s. But as someone said, to believe is to be happy. The more we doubt, the more we find out, the more painful we are going to feel.
- My first lie was told in my first composition. It was about celebration of the National Day. What a 8-year-old girl of countryside knew about the National Day. I compared it to other important days I knew, such as the Spring Festival. Adding some exaggeration, I finished it anyway. To my surprise, I received praise from my teacher! He even post it on the wall paper in our small classroom.
- My father, however, did not agree at all. He said I was lying all through the words. I feld a bit shamed and told him I would not do that again. But the next time when I wrote a composition in plain words telling true things, my teacher criticized me as it was not like a story at all. Ok, it was the teacher who mattered in my school life, I gradually learned how to write in the way he liked. But I had never let my father read my composition again since then.
- And my experience is common among most coeval, according to a recent report. Many Chinese learned to tell their first lie in writing composition. As the country’s old education system requires positive political awareness. Facts are always full of defectiveness, teachers should not allow students to think negatively about the society, the world, and the people around them. They are always given “good examples” only to imitate. Only to write “good things and good people”, anything negative would be considered as mischief and cause disqualification in examinations that stuff in Chinese students’ school life.
- Even when we grow up and learned to distinguish the trued from the false, we just can’t help telling lies from time, as that is the way to survive in the world full of cheat.
- Truth is treasurable, but not to be welcomed many a time.




