How our lives can be changed when we use lies as excuses
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is hidden in its shoes.
Mark Twain
I have to start today's post by saying that making excuses to get out of a situation might not be the best solution, but sometimes you really don't have a choice, either you are sincere and then there is the possibility of being judged negatively by family, friends, colleagues, neighbours or the second option of making all sorts of excuses for not honouring an invitation.
I mention that the lines I will write here are from my own experience.
Here in Romania at the beginning of the year we celebrate those people who have a saint's name (I won't go into details about the celebration), so I was called by my godfather and invited to the party held in honor of his name.
From word to word I started to interrogate him a little to find out who else is invited there, without any hindrance I found out all the people who will be there, I think over 30 people, friends, acquaintances, relatives.
I'm a bit picky when it comes to my entourage, I try to have quality people around me, I can say that I'm lucky when it comes to friends, I must admit that I don't have many friends around me, I have a few but of quality (I don't write their names here because when they will read the text written by me here they will realize that it's about them).
In most such cases it would be fair to tell the truth but here being my godfather I couldn't refuse his invitation so I made the decision to give him a call and thank him for the invitation but also to regretfully convey that I couldn't honour the invitation because I was having a kidney crisis and a few minutes ago a nurse came to my house and gave me some painkiller injections, what was I supposed to say, I have to be credible, no.
Now, if it comes to my health, that kidney crisis was indeed real, but not right then, I had already reached a personal record of three kidney operations due to kidney stones that I could not remove naturally except by surgery, I went through terrible times.
Yes, my excuse was inventing kidney crisis.
Why did I choose that excuse?
Some of the people who were invited to the party I either dislike or consume too much alcohol, and after drinking too much they become extremely annoying, others give themselves too much importance, but in reality they are nothing special.
In fact, that evening I had almost no one to talk to, to socialize with, to tell each other what we did in the past year, what plans we have for the new year, because this holiday fell on 01.01. 2023, so I made the decision to invent something that would be very believable, I honestly tell you that I'm not proud of myself for doing this, but in this way I managed to get rid of obligations (in a very short time I have to look for and buy gift, flowers) and of course boredom.
Even to this day I didn't tell him the truth because I actually don't know how he would react if he found out the truth (I hope he never reads this blog), I know now I can be judged that it would have been better to tell him the truth from the beginning, but there is a possibility that he might get upset because the guests were his friends but not mine, the situation is a bit complicated, I can be judged too, maybe I could have attended the party for at least a few hours and then left, it was my decision and I take responsibility for that decision.
My dear friends, this time too I got carried away and put my personal life here in front of you, but on the other hand I would be curious if there are people among you who would take the same decision as me or maybe others would tell the truth at the risk of creating an embarrassing situation.
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P.S. The attached picture you have just seen are taken by me with my mobile phone in a hospital before surgery, and the text is also designed by me.
