College Admissions Essay: Why I Lie

At 19 years old i’ve come to realized that people will always lie to you to get what they want.I’ve had a really tough upbringing and watching the people around me lie to each other has made me prone to seeing when people are lying. So watching this video has only confirmed what i already knew. I remember this one time in middle school when me and another “friend” had shared a gym locker because we thought it was cool (don’t ask me why i thought it was cool, i have no idea) and one day my dad gave me $100 to put on my lunch card and i put that and my brand new uggs in the locker and locked it and went to gym class. When i came back the uggs and my $100 were gone and i knew only one other person new the combo to the locker so when i confronted her she

pretended not to know and told me someone else must of broken into it, but her her tone of voice got lower but her speech increased, and she kept distancing herself from the subject and denying she took it. And i remember thinking maybe she telling the truth but i had to know for sure so not to tell you of my criminal acts but i broke into her school locker to look in her backpack and sure enough my uggs were in there and i found my $100 in her wallet.

I know when i was younger i lied a lot and about anything, it didn’t matter, i would lie just to lie sometimes to see if i could get away with it.

But now when i catch myself lying i ask myself why i’m lying and what for. Everytime i do this find the answer to why and i tell the truth. I’m not saying i always tell the truth but if it a little thing i tell a white lie but if it’s about something bigger than myself i will always tell the truth. I remember one time in my life my boyfriend told me that one of his friends who was in a long term relationship with my friend had been cheating on her and i remember when me and my friend were hanging out she told me that her boyfriend was acting weird lately and i told her not to worry about it and right after that i got this pit in my stomach and i felt so guilt that i left her house ten minute after that. I remember also sweating just by thinking about the lying. I told her a couple days later because of all the guilt and she became infuriated by what i told her and that i lied to her earlier when i knew. But after that situation we haven't been friends friends since then and i can understand why. I think that this is the reason why i no longer hide the big

lies.