TRUTH or LIE????

The Truth will set you free?

You know the saying the truth will set you free? Well in my life it's quite the opposite,in my life the truth will be your downfall while the lie will be your salvation.

Since I can remember I have always been beaten up for saying the truth, always  called a liar for saying the truth while praised for saying a lie, always called a good girl for lying.

Maybe it's because the truth isn't always what they want to hear and the lie is what they believe they want to here.

I remember when I was falsely accused of breaking something, I kept saying over and over that I wasn't the one and the more I said it the more I was beaten, kicked and insulted for lying to the extent I felt I couldn't take it anymore, I agreed to breaking the thing I never touched, that was when the beating, kicking and the insult stop.

I couldn't believe that the lie set me free, I thought it will put me in more wahala, the funny thing was that after I accepted breaking the thing (which I didn't break) my accuser told me ''that the truth will set me free, that lying wasn't good, that as I said the truth, she left me, I should always say the truth''.

I was six years old when that happened and seven when I believed the lie will always set me free.

Too disastrous for a child that young to have that believe, don't you think?

But that was the believe I had stuck up in my mind, can't blame me, right?

It's what I was unknowingly taught by my aunt, you might be wondering why my aunt, wasn't my parents part of my life.

Well the answer is no,my mom died when I was at a tender age, my dad wasn't able to take care of my sister and I, so my mom's relatives took us in.

Please don't get me wrong, my mom's relatives were really good towards us, especially my mom's younger sister who took us in, she wasn't married and had no child of her own.

She treated us like her children, gave us treats, didn't let us feel the loss of our parents. She made us happy, welcome and loved. Even though she clearly didn't like my dad, she allowed him talk to us from time to time.

But unknowingly to her, she was the one who printed the believe that the lie will set you free.

Funnily, she hated lies always saying the truth will set you free, but always beating for saying a lie which was actually the truth.

She taught I was lying when what
I said wasn't what she was expecting to hear but if I say excatly what she thinks is the truth then she believes even though I know it's a lie.

And that's how I grew, telling her what she wanted to hear but sometimes I try saying the truth which always results the same way.

Until one day.

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Hey guys, this book was written by me and only me, I won't take it from anyone who copies this book.

As you can see it is nonfiction. It's nonfiction because some of them truly happened but I changed some persons name, some of the timeline of some events and some events itself.

I did all this so not to implicate anybody.

I hope you like it.

Let's just say it's about me 😉.