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(A).                                        

                                   LYING

It goes without saying that those who always tell the truth are trust-worthy and are popular with their friends. People like to make friends with them and have full confidence in them. People dare to tell them what are (is) in their minds and trust them with what they have of their own.

On the other hand, those who have the habit of telling lies are disgusting and people will get away from them. It is impossible that they can have close friends and are left alone and often feel lonely in their everyday lives. For no reason, should a man tell lies. Lying is not right at all times in our civilized societies. Liars become nuisances and “wet blankets.”

Under certain circumstances, we are forced to tell a “white lie” for fear that our beloved parents, siblings or children may worry about us. It is one way of making them rest assured. Lying in those cases leaves room for excuse. But anyway, as the western saying goes, “Honesty is the best policy.”  We had better tell the truth. We should not tell a lie in our lives.

Irish dramatist(劇作家)Lady Gregory’s words are worth putting in mind: “It is sweet to people to be telling a lie; but it is bitter in the end.”

(B).

                                      A White Lie

The author of the world-wide famous novel “Tom Sawyer”, Mark Twain, once said: “It is easy to stop smoking. I have got rid of smoking more than one thousand times “It is a joke as well as a lie. A successful smoking cessation is never more than one time.

I dislike lies. So I keep away from liars. I just keep friends with people who tell the truth. We can believe true friends and can entrust them with important and confidential things. Never had I said lies in my life before my mother died except for once.

My mother was a traditional woman of nerves. She was always worried about this and that. Therefore I used to keep her in the dark about the trivial but worrying things. In my high school days, one day on the way home, I was unluckily hit by a truck from the back. I got hurt in my right leg and it hurt very much. When my mother found I walked strangely, she asked me what was wrong with me. In case she might have felt worried, I smilingly and lightly had answered that I was all right. I told her a “white lie” with the hope that my mother would feel at ease.

(C).

Lie or Die?

In comparison with turtles, human life span is pretty short. Eighty or ninety years of life can be said to be “long”. In the long journey of life, most people might be faced with difficulties, crises or even fatal death.

Take the mother of John, a college classmate of mine, for example. She was very sensitive when she was alive. She was easy to get nervous. Once, scores of years ago, John’s company got a bad check of quite a sum of money. If he had not coped with the case carefully and successfully, his company might have gone bankrupt. He was too much worried to eat or to sleep. His mother seemed to be conscious of his anxiety. She asked him: “What was wrong?” He answered “No” on purpose. If his mother had known the fact, she might have been worried to death.

Yes, I agree that “Lie or Die?” is a big question. However, under special circumstances, a “White Lie” is the best policy though an American saying goes: “Honesty is the best policy.” After all, life is more precious than death!

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