10.White lies

White lie-small and insignificant lie, done to avoid hurt someone's feelings 

Now, compared to most people I know, I don't think I lie that much. Despite the fact that I don't care that much, I try my hardest to be honest, It doesn't always work out.

Through the years, I made a scale with people I'm most comfortable with lying to.

4. Strangers

I used to think lying to strangers was worse, because in most cases, it will be the only memory these people will have of me. What if they end up being my job interviewers in 10 years or so? What if I have to encounter them again in life later on?

But I reached a point when I simply accepted that a decision has to be made, I decided that I don't give an ever-loving fuck anymore. And there is a specific moment that brought me to this point.

In my school, we used to have two students every day, that would have to take on a role of a sort of bodyguard. We would sit behind a table near the entrance to the school. It was usually quite a chill job that you had to do one every year. But on the day that it was my turn, it decided to be anything but.

I already had to study most of the day because I had an exam during the last period, which also meant that me and my schoolmate would also have to find replacements for our job. But then we saw a man enter school. He asked me:

=Could you please take me to Ms. Novak, I have a package for her?˝

Miss Novak was our Math teacher and honestly I didn't know where the fuck she could be. I knew that I would have to take him to her, because schoolmate went to the toilet by this point. At first I took him to Class 33 where she would usually be, but she was not there. 

Then I took him to the teachers lounge, where if I didn't her I could at least ask about her to other teachers. My biology teacher told me that she had to be somewhere near, but only I managed to hear her, so when me and the delivery guy left the teachers lounge, he told me:

˝Well we will just leave the package on the post station and she can come pick it up then.˝

I agreed and he started leaving, but just as he was I saw Ms. Novak coming down the stairs. I could stop him, I could shout after him, but I didn't. I simply said hi to Ms. Novak and went back to my place.

3. Schoolmates

I love my schoolmates, but there is a big part of me, that can't help but sometimes just simply lie. I would probably have to lie more, if I had a better handwritting, which would mean I had to lend notes a lot more, but thankfully my notes look like shit.

I don't have a specific case when I lied to my classmates, except for when they offered me to come to the drink something in a bar with them, at 10pm, on the day I worked afternoon shift at my work, you can see where I'm going can't ya? 

I could simply told them I'm tired, but that is probably not gonna cut it. So I simply told them my parents were gonna pick me up in the center of the city. Looking back at it, It would have been a lot cooler if I just told them I was tired from work.

2. Siblings

Yeah, honestly they can go below schoolmates.

1. Parents

Despite the fact I find it hardest to lie to my parents the most, I still decided to do it from time to time.

I remember when I was younger, hiding every single one of my exams with a grade below a B under my bed or even giving them away to my schoolmates who took them home. Don't get me wrong my parents did not hit me or anything but the standard was placed very high, which honestly, is probably the only reason I managed to climb anywhere in life. 

I remember in second year of high school I started a band, which I told my father had 4 members with me combined, because I hoped that would make him believe in me more, when in reality I was the only one it. It didn't last very long.

But with years it just became way easier to be honest with parents. I simply don't see the need to lie anymore, as I feel like it's just not worth it. I had simply gotten a lot closer with them, which means we understand each other a lot more.

The last real lie I remember telling my parents is when I wanted to go to the city and they offered to drive me there. I wanted to go on the bus, you can feel about it anyway you want. I simply told me that I had to met a friend at a bus station tough she wasn't there. It is not because I don't like my parents, but I paid 300 euros for yearly bus pass, I want to use it.

 LARA PETEK 4.1.2025