For Convenience’s Sake

 

Sometimes, you do things merely for convenience.

One moment, you get pressured by everything around you to commit some “white” lies and for convenience’s sake, you follow the dictates of your baser urges. You convince yourself that what you are doing is simply typical of the world. That what you are doing is actually harmless. It would hurt no one. No one would know anyway. Just you and a few persons jaded enough to understand that this is just the way we do it.

Everyone is doing it anyway! So, if everyone is doing it, that makes what we are doing right, right?

And then, you keep walking. All the lies keep piling on top of each other. Still, to cover the ugly stain in your heart, you lie more to yourself. You become immune to the lies and lying comes so easily.

It then becomes your way as well. No one knows anyway, just a few people who understand what its like.

And then, the lies cloud your senses. You no longer hear, see or feel beyond the lies you made. You no longer feel joy because you cannot feel it through the thick layer covering your body. You no longer feel anything beyond weariness, despair at having to keep up with all the façade of decent living.

And then, something happens. A Hand decides He has had enough. He plucks you out of the mire you live in, and brings you to the glaring light of day. He rubs mud on your eyes and tells you to open them . You blink. The light hurts your eyes.

He makes you face a magic mirror and you see, your scarred body, your pitifully small heart, beating faintly in your chest. You gasp in horror at the horrible monster before you. But no sound comes from your mouth. The lies, they are all reflected upon your frail, fragile form. The horror of the lies you committed astounds you.

And it all started with just one, single lie – merely for convenience’s sake…