Lies

I hate liars. I really do.

I'll start by giving a background as to why I hate liars. As some people may know, I used to be a liar. I used to be two-faced and just generally very unpleasant as a person. I used to steal things, like food from shops or money from my Dad. 

I used to lie a lot. My mother, you see, used to ask me to lie about Tracy, my ex step-mother. My mother hated Tracy and would use me as a weapon against her and my father. I was very young and I was afraid, because my mother told me she would kill my father if I didn't go along with it. 
So, I started to lie. I can't remember what lie it was that it stemmed from, I think it was that my father had hit me with a belt, but in the end, I had to come clean. I was so scared that I had just signed my father's life away. He's still here though, and so am I. I was so afraid of the truth because my mother had conditioned me against it. But I realise now that, had I not told the truth, my father would've ended up in prison for child abuse and I could be in a foster home or worse, with my mother.

So you see, sometimes people can't help lying. I'm not justifying lying at all but sometimes, you can understand why people lie.

What I don't understand though, is why people lie when telling the truth would be more profitable. For example, I found out earlier today that someone that was there for me in the aftermath of a very, very messy break-up was indeed, a liar.                                                                                 A liar by omission, they call it, when they tell you parts of the truth but leave out the important details. Two days after this break-up, this person, whom until recently I trusted, relayed to me that my ex boyfriend had indeed slept with a girl he'd been previously linked with. Now I, of course, was very angry. This person though, was very good at keeping himself in a good light by trying to be fair to my ex. Which I thought was a bit funny, seeing how those two hated each other.

I ended up getting close to this guy and I actually quite liked him, he was incredibly funny and liked some of the same things as me and was always ready to listen. I confess, I did mess him about a bit and I'm ashamed to say I went out with him for two days before breaking it up, simply because I was hurting too much to be with anyone else. 

A few weeks later, I spoke to my ex by text and later by phone call. In the texts, he called this person a liar and said 'no-one close to me knows/likes him, he's a liar.' He also mentioned this person had been heard saying that he was going to play me and this other girl(another one who had been linked to my ex) off against each other. I thought, 'hmm, okay, maybe he's just saying that in retaliation.' Walking around outside the train station later that night, I ran into someone my ex and this person knew mutually. He asked me had I slept with this person. I told him I hadn't and asked where he'd heard that. 'This person has been telling everyone that you did,' he replied. Again, I became furious. I confronted this person and his excuse was that it was a poor game of Chinese whispers. Fair enough I thought, sometimes things get lost in translation but I was starting to get very, very suspicious. This person wouldn't tell me who had told him the aforementioned rumour and became very vague when confronted about the other one. He eventually told me the name of this source, from whom he'd heard about my ex supposedly sleeping with someone else. I thought, fine. I won't talk to her about it because I'm too emotionally charged.

So I gave it a few more weeks. In fact, today, I asked her about it. She said my ex had never told her and that she wasn't even sure it was true, in fact she asked me if it was true! She also told me that this person had said he broke up with me because he liked someone else! 
Okay, yes, there are worse lies that have been told but the way I see it, this person saw an opportunity to simultaneously gain a girlfriend and annoy my ex, whom he hates, in one go. He usurped a situation and lied to me and lied to his own friends. What strikes me as funny is, that had he been honest about his intentions, I probably would still be his friend now. But he wasn't. He's a liar, he's double-handed and a deceiver. 

This person is not to be trusted.