New Ted Writing Assignment - lying to oneself

Watching this video, I thought the job of liespotter is funny. The existence of liespotter shows how people desire to reach the truth and not get deceived. The difference between truth and false is very ambiguous and furtive to assert certainly. At first, I tried to write about lies, the overall notion, but then I realized that this topic would be too generous and hackneyed to practice the structuralizing skill. Suddenly, I came up with another topic-lying to oneself- and felt auspicious! So I begin:

Lying is a cooperative act in the unit of social activity. Willful lies are usually made to enhance amity or mitigate the burden of being servile to others. However, some bad lies form discords and usually are incessant to cut off- especially when one is lying to oneself to fake the discord as conciliatory, which is actually futile.

First of all, in an evolutionary point of view, people can protect themselves by distorting the fact during the process of perception. Since the world is consisted of diverse ideas, it is inevitable to face a situation hard to handle with one’s provincial view. Not to get hurt by the slice gap of perception and reality, which is usually crucial for the receptor, people deny the fact and deliberately blur their sight impossible to discriminate the fact and the mistaken perception. Therefore, people start to dig in the lie, trying to neglect reality, alleviating the hurt.

Secondly, people lie to themselves to believe that the situation isn't that bad, also it's not all the person's fault. People who lie to themselves are afraid of thrill aroused in their hearts. The thrill occurs when the person has got mixed with the world and the desire secretly buried in one’s heart, and after the mixing process, people can see the creation a profound emotion in a vague sense, but conspicuous enough that can’t be condoned easily. Even though people who lie to themselves recognize this flutter, they are too weak to break their prison and begin a new life; rather, they fear to face the shabbiness of their own and keep on believing in fallacious picture of their sweet lies. 

In short, people lie to evade the actualities and make a false reality as their fence. When people face a harsh situation to bear and not avoidable, they have to, or naturally lie to repress the remorse down. However, even we lie, the situation doesn't belittle; we just try to believe that way. At the moment of flagrant event, if we hold up our tension and have mind set up, we can overcome the situation. As an old saying, if we keep our mind, we can keep our breath even we are in a cave of tiger.