Lies, sweet lies...

Lie is beautiful.

If it is not, what else can be? Right?

The most beautiful things in life are lies. It has to be that way. Always an "unheard song is sweeter". Anything that comes into the realm of reality loses its beauty. So if you find something to be beautiful, it has to be a lie. ;)

Man is made to lie. Reality is so dumb, dry and boring that you don't need brains to do anything with it. It is lies that require to be nourished by your creative juices. In fact, reality is a myth. Reality is a lie that is conceived badly and constructed imperfectly.

If you want to be human, you have no other choice but to lie. Any doubts? Consider this. The only stuff that separates man from his predecssors in the evolutionary spiral is creativity. Or should I call it a maze and not a spiral, which implies a progress/hierarchy, considering that we tend to shuttle between different cells/stages and most often, find ourselves totally lost and in places that we wouldn't want to be. Now, if you ever want to be creative , you got to lie. After all, creativity is essentially lying to yourself and of course to others that this is not IT. The essence of creativity is challenging reality. It is about thinking beyond. So, it is essential to lie if you want to be human.

If somebody finds that you were bluffing: don't panic and run like a fool to switch your faith to truth. Just know that all that is needed is that your lies got to get better and necessarily bigger.

For instance, if a girl asks you to stop lying when you tell her she is beautiful, don't do just that. All that she wants is a much bigger lie that brings a burp. So, for starters, you can say she is better than aish and then move on to serve her a multi-course meal depending on your creativity. Or another lie that works better: more than wanting to know what you think about her beauty, i think she would be happier to hear you say that aish is uglier than her. Although both mean essentially the same, the second one has a much stronger emotional appeal. ;)

You can get the help of so many philosophical bestsellers for improving your skills of creating the alternatives to truth or if you have enough money and don't know what to do with it, do an MBA. You will learn how to lie not only with words but also with numbers.

As Indians, we are a bunch that always has been fascinated by our own ability to stick to the truth. This has far deeper implications than you can possibly imagine. You haven't had even a glimpse of it even in your wildest dreams. Let me explain. As a nation, we have always been in the search, which is destined to be futile, for the "ultimate, beautiful, pristine truth". For that "beautiful truth" is a well-conceived and perfectly perpetuated lie . Such perfect lies are more dangerous than any dictators the world has seen. The damage they do is insidious and lasts for generations together. Lies are like fully loaded guns, your life rests on which side of it you are. For long, we have locked up our creativity in the name of honesty and we have been at the receiving end of bigger and bigger lies, which is why we were fooled by a bunch of pigtail sporting liars from far across. Even now, the scene hasn't changed much and most of us stay at the same receiving end. It is high time we unleashed our creativity and started telling bigger and bigger lies. All said, creative people in the west keep weaving bigger and better lies that always win.

Of course, i know, in the long run, truth alone triumphs. But, in the long run, everybody would be dead, as Keynes says.

Tail piece:
If you find this to be a beautiful piece of prose, you are absolutely right: very very rarely truth is beautiful and THIS is one such instance. Better believe that and intensify your lying process.
On the other hand, if you think it is ugly, then you are abnormal: you do have a knack of understanding the truth on the face of it for as i said nothing except lies can be beautiful.