An Ugly TRUTH Versus A Beautiful LIE

A few days ago, NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo was formally introduced as a member of NBA ballclub MIAMI HEAT with no less than quintessential icon Pat Riley and celebrated Fil-Am Coach Erik Spoelstra on his side.  Say WHAT you want BUT Giannis never wasted a minute to say it all that he thrives living and playing under pressure, underscoring that he wants to hear from his mentors and coaches an UGLY TRUTH versus a BEAUTIFUL LIE😡😡😡

There's that thing, the harsh reality I did witness a zillion times over and over again.  Much as we will all hear from everyone in unison that we all go for the TRUTH and NOT that brazen LIE, in real life, that's NOT happening most of the time.  On the contrary, many times, I personally witnessed those 'BEAUTIFUL LIES' being peddled in lieu of an UGLY TRUTH.  BTW, my first-hand accounts cut across almost all facets of life.  From personal relationships to life at the workplace and over to life across commercial forays, business activities, politics [both local/domestic and even geopolitics] and even the supposedly neutral domains of the religious sector and even non-governmental organizations.  NOT far from WHAT's happening in real life, we tend to gloss over the harsh reality WHICH equates to the harsh truth.  Instead, we tend to be complicit in 'SUGAR-COATING' and worse, even in 'WINDOW-DRESSING' things, all because we would like to peddle that not so obvious BEAUTIFUL LIE in lieu of that UGLY TRUTH.  YES dude, it's shockingly a surprise as to WHY things tend to flip on the wrong side of the coin😟😟😟

Back in my school days, I DON'T remember our academic mentors teaching and leading us towards that 'wrong path'.  Instead, we were consistently schooled to vouch for the TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH.  Fast-forward after another decade or two, it pains me to did bear witness with many of us ending up embroiled in the midst of a BEAUTIFUL LIE WHEN in fact, we should be standing by the TRUTH, even if it is that UGLY TRUTH.  It's befuddling no less dude❎❎❎

NOT too long back, sometime 2008-2009 WHEN I was based in India for a year-long flagship project of HSBC across Pan-India, SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES was one of the fastest-rising global IT players.  It was a stamped as a legitimate global player even before it got listed at NYSE.  By 2009, B. Ramalinga Raju confessed to a US $ 1.5 Billion fraud wherein earlier, he managed NOT to present the UGLY TRUTH but instead a BEAUTIFUL LIE, with NOT SO sophisticated falsification of accounting transactions, admitting then that revenues, profits and cash balances were all falsified for years and years.  That huge scandal reverberated NOT just in the Indian IT landscape but even in the United States where SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES was NYSE-listed.  That forced the hands of regulators to effect sweeping regulatory and auditing reforms to prevent such mind-blogling financial deception to ever happen again😡😡😡

Our takeaway:  For now, we DON'T need to be bothered by the goings-on across commercial conglomerates.  Instead, let's swing back to our daily lives and ask ourselves:  DO WE SOMETIMES SUCCUMB to present a BEAUTIFUL LIE instead of an UGLY TRUTH.  YES, there are outliers, like, if a family member is confirmed to be terminally ill BUT the family is hesitant to let the family member know about it as it can impact the patient more.  BUT other than those outliers, it really behooves that we consider embracing in a consistent manner the utter need to gather all our gumption to present and come out with the UGLY TRUTH instead of presenting that so called BEAUTIFUL LIE.  After all, eventually, TRUTH will come out of the lid dude🙏🙏🙏