It's Christmas Morning.The family gathers in the living room of grandma's house after breakfast. People begin passing around presents. I am handed a medium sized box covered in candy cane wrapping paper with a beautiful gold bow.
Grandma: "I saw a jacket at the store that I thought you might like. It was on sell so I couldn't pass it up."
I rip the wrapping paper and ribbon off the box, excited to see what's inside. I pull out a very stiff feeling jacket that has a color resembling a weird grayish purple. My excitement has instantly vanished.
Grandma: "Do you like it?"
Me: Yeah thank you so much.
I plaster on a grin for my grandma.
Grandma: Oh good!
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Alternative scene
It's Christmas Morning.The family gathers in the living room of grandma's house after breakfast. People begin passing around presents. I am handed a medium sized box covered in candy cane wrapping paper with a beautiful gold bow.
Grandma: "I saw a jacket at the store that I thought you might like. It was on sell so I couldn't pass it up."
I rip the wrapping paper and ribbon off the box, excited to see what's inside. I pull out a very stiff feeling jacket that has a color resembling a weird grayish purple.
Grandma: "Do you like it?"
Me: "Umm. Not really but thanks."
Grandma: "You don't like it?"
Me: Umm, no.
Grandma (slightly sad and disappointed): Oh.... ok. I guess we can return it.
AKWARD
From an early age everyone tells you that your not supposed to lie. I always seem to go back and forth with the idea of lying. But I have come to the conclusion that it is okay to lie under certain circumstances. I've learned this from experiences of telling the truth. I have told my share of lies, some of them much like the first scene.Usually I feel fine with lying when there isn't a serious situation happening, there's really no consequences to others that come from me lying and when someone's feelings are at stake. It just doesn't feel good when it I think I'm crushing someones feelings unneccesarily. I guess my stance could be argued on whether this is truth but, it's where I stand.
White lies have never hurt anybody. I agree. I mean adults tell us to tell the truth and that there will be no consequences but tell the woman who caught you after having come back from Dunkin Donuts to school-on time-after skipping the pep rally to go get coffee-and all of a sudden, we're the bad ones. Honestly, why should we be in trouble for not wanting to participate in something we don't care about or even follow. I mean we could have lied and said we got a late arrival but no, we told the truth, and we got in trouble.
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