So everyone says that there is two sides to a story, but that's a lie. There can be many different perspectives to a situation ( however skewed they may be) but to have two sides would be impossible and almost foolish in thinking. So we've established that there can be two different perspectives, but when does a perspective cross the line into the unknown or bold faced lie? It seems impossible to tell, for the people that weren't there to me on assumptions that could be true or false depending on the person's misgivings. So when does a perspective become a lie? I find that question very hard to answer, for a lie in itself is not necessarily a bad thing in today's society. It seems that to lie to spare someone's feelings is a good thing, which seems absurd since we have been taught since childhood that to lie is almost to commit a damnable sin that would condemn us to a everlasting purgatory. It seems that "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (Hamlet). Nevertheless, when someone bends a tale to their own ends its still a perspective, but is it a lie? Lying is something inlerable yet tolerable, good yet bad. Its almost the ying and yang of society, for someone can tell a white lie.... although a black lie has yet to be invented as a slang term I find it somewhat appropriate for those horrible lies that can ruin a human life. My life has not been ruined, yet it has been altered. Whether or not that was from a lie remains to be unknown but I find that the more I ponder it the more I find it insignificant in the scheme of things. Although it would be nice for future reference to know when perspective becomes a lie, where the line is drawn and crossed, and when insantity become sanity and vice versa.
 ruinousangel · Tue Nov 18, 2008 @ 05:38am · 1 Comments |
