Have you ever received misfortune for not telling the truth about something you did? When I was little, I didn’t know what punishment felt like for the outcome of what my actions. I have always been a well mannered child who did not acquire trouble. But, there is one memory that I can recount where my actions caused me to expect a rebuke. When I was around seven to eight years of age, I lived alone with my mother, my sister had just graduated and moved out to start working. At the time, my mother also worked late at night and always returned home extremely exhausted, which resulted in her sleeping for most of the day. For most of the day, I was at school. When school ended, she would have to come get me and we would walk home, usually …show more content…
On this particular day, I wanted a quesadilla. Whenever I would ask for someone to make me one, they usually would just microwave shredded cheese between two tortillas. Now, I knew how to prepare the quesadilla and that to cook it I needed to microwave it. What I did not know is how long to cook it for. The only reason I even attempted to make the quesadilla was due to my mom had been asleep and I did not want to disturb her. So, I ultimately decided to cook it without her help. I placed the plate with the quesadilla into the microwave and set the time to about ten minutes, not knowing you only need to cook it for a minute or two. As I let it cook, I began to notice a burning smell and knew something was …show more content…
I panicked. I had no idea what to do and had become terrified that I would gain trouble. So, I found some oven mitts and took out the shattered plate with the burnt food still on it. I quickly ran to the sliding doors that led out to the tiny patio and threw the contents in my hands into the forest and prayed no one would find it. As I ran back in, I closed the screen door instead of the glass door so the house could air out before anyone noticed. I turned the stove fan and the ceiling fan on the to also help air out the room and used the oven mitts to frantically air out the kitchen. As soon as I felt it was safe to leave, I booked it outside so I could play and forget about what happened and delay any questions I might get
Everyone struggles with admitting the truth. No matter how people are raised they still seem to fall into a situation where they feel lying is their only way out. Lying is the truth being hidden, therefore, withholding information is equivalent to lying. The truth may seem hidden but it will always reveal itself. In Frank Peretti’s novel, The Prophet, consequences such distrust, vices, and misunderstanding follow all the characters that lack truth.
one by one, we all piled in to the living room and thankfully my mom
An issue which is mentioned throughout the story is the concept of “Ignorance is bliss”, which is an old cliche meaning what we don’t know can’t hurt us. While massaging his naked female neighbor’s body, the narrator is asked if he’s going to tell his mother. No, he answers. “So you even know that certain things are better left unsaid! You really are a devil” (Mahfouz, 13). The neighbor makes the obvious point that sometimes there are things that don’t have to be repeated, for the benefit of all the parties involved. Some might argue that the Truth will always come out, and by hiding it someone will end up being affected by it much more later on. But that is only if the information does get repeated. Knowledge doesn’t always have to be repeated, as was shown by our narrator and his neighbor. If the narrator had told his mother, would any of the parties benefit from this knowledge?
I escaped and rushed downstairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I
Telling just a simple lie will drag you through a never-ending road of twisty turns and harsh realities. In Charmaine Wilkerson’s Black Cake, the Bennett family falls apart. After the death of Bert Bennett, later followed by Covey Bennett, their two children, Benny and Byron, are left mad at each other and the world due to false realities, and deep rooting lies. Even if one is fearful of their past, it is still never acceptable to lie to a loved one, because it will ultimately cause unnecessary feelings of confusion and resentment that end up harming a relationship. To begin, it is essential to remain honest with loved ones, because failing to do so will cause extreme confusion and give them a false sense of your identity.
bodies, blood, and glass towards the window to get out. Thankfully the swat team was there to
"Tell Theresa you're sick," she would advise. And generally I did. But I didn't seem blessed with her lack of conscience. On many painful occasions Theresa would find out that I really went to Sue's house without her. These occasions taught me that it is more painful to be caught in a lie than it is to tell the truth in the first place. I wondered how it was possible that my mother had never learned that lesson.
I am no chef or culinary genius by any measure, but the story I’m about to tell should amply highlight my expertise in the field of “how not to cook.”
People lie everyday to, in someway or another, keep themselves out of trouble. Many teenagers will lie to their parents about what they are doing for the evening, how much of their homework they have done, or how that glass vase got broken while they were out of town. We even lie to our significant others about who that other boy was that called the house or what exactly we did with our friends last night. All anyone is trying to accomplish by this is to stay out of trouble when we know we’ve done wrong. But we never think of the effects of lying. Although we think we’re being sly, parents are usually smarter than we give them credit for! And eventually our boyfriends and girlfriends will find out! Then the problem becomes the issue of trust. If you lie, there is no trust. That can be one of the serious consequences of lying.
Sometimes better to tell lie than to tell a truth for some kind of reasons. That is for some time for an entertainment only. But telling a lie is not good for all the time. There is one more thing in my life that was a great impact to me when I was sixteen years old that is telling a lie with family. At that time I had many friends, and usually I liked to roam with them. At that time, I had no value of money. Even I was not mature enough to understand how to spend it. These all things which resulted into bad habits. My parents had trust on me, so I always gave excuses about study. But reality was totally different from parent’s belief. After spending some days, from school teachers complained about my work to my father. Teacher told me that I was not working hard in school. Day by day I was getting off the track in the field of study. From that day my father had a doubt on me. One day my father called at my friend’s house, but he already knew that I am not at my friend’s place. I was gossiping outside area of our house. After some time when I went to my house and all my family members were looking at me in anger. Their behavior towards me was not good, and my father was so upset with me. So, I went in my room by head
When I left my room, my mother knew that I had gone through a rough time, and I did not want to talk to her about it. Even though there was only a month left in my school year, I promised myself that I would be completely truthful to my friends, my family, my heritage, and myself. I expected all my friends to leave me, but I was fully prepared for this. However, none of this ever happened. My friends didn’t leave me, I wasn’t alone at the lunch table, I wasn’t even seem differently by those around me. I had failed my family by doing this, and I wished I had stopped acting like someone I wasn’t sooner. This is one of the only mistakes I have made which I consider a failure because it had taken me close to a year to fix, and this is why I consider it my most successful failure.
It is never easy to admit you’ve made a mistake, but it is a crucial step in learning, growing, and improving yourself. You can only learn from a mistake after you admit you’ve made it. As soon as you start blaming other people, you distance yourself from any possible lesson or reason. In the article “How to identify and learn from your mistakes” Berkun explains why it is hard to admit that you’ve made a mistake. “It’s never easy to admit you’ve made a mistake, but it’s a crucial step in learning, growing, and improving yourself. If you be honest and tell the truth that you make a mistake, the possibilities for learning will move towards you. (Berkun). In the article “Berkun” Berkun explains why telling the truth on making a mistake will help you learn more from
I had no idea that not everyone felt that I knew everything in the world. & nbsp; One beautiful day that summer, I was playing outside with my friends when my mom called for me to come home. I did not want to abandon my guard post at the neighbor's tree house, so I decided to disregard her order. I figured that my parents would understand my dilemma and wouldn't mind if I stayed out for another two or three hours. Unfortunately, they neglected to inform me that my grandparents had driven in from North Carolina, and we were supposed to go out for a nice dinner. When I finally returned, my father was furious.
For at least fifteen years of my life, I kept my emotions bottled up, my secrets under lock and key. Not once did I even question if I could talk about my life to anybody, I couldn’t. Instead of learning to talk about my life, to talk about my feelings, to talk about my troubles and my hardships and my state of being… I learned to be ashamed. I learned wrong.