Rewinding you in cronical order most recent to the oldest. You have been part of my daily life in form of different emojis. The cute yellow emojis travelling from one chat window to the other are very good keeper of lies. When it is too difficult to use the words , yellow liers come in picture faking the sweetness, hiding the sadness, bitterness or sometimes ambiguous enough to leave the reciepnt puzzled. Few years back, the false cell phone ring and false contact saved as Mom used to be yellow lier. Before that it was the medical prescription to get the attendance or earning the assignment points in college lab but those were the mixture of red and yellow both. Childhood yellow lies used to carry more guilt than ever along with fear of parents , teachers and sometimes the God too. However, those were not even lies. Bunking a class, not doing doing the homework or chit-chat with friends were reasons of yellow lies. Innocent face always helped the yellow lies to perform their duties well. Dear yellow liers ! my memory lasts friendship with you here. I know , you will be there forever in different forms. Your besties always ! "Everybody’s heard of white lies — harmless social fictions intended to enable us to all get along without killing each other — but did you know there are other colours of lie? ‘Yellow lies’ are those told out of embarrassment, shame or cowardice, to cover up a failing; ‘my laptop crashed and deleted that report I said I’d definitely have finished by today’. ‘Blue lies’ are the opposite, lies downplaying your achievements, told from modesty (‘oh, the report’s nothing special, Cathy wrote most of it really’). ‘Red lies’ might be the most interesting of all – they’re lies that are told without any intent to deceive. The speaker knows they are lying, the speaker’s audience knows that they’re lying, and the speaker knows that the audience knows. The point, here, isn’t to mislead anybody – it’s to signal something to the audience that can’t be spoken out loud (whether that’s basically ‘fuck you’ or the more benign ‘shall we all just pretend that didn’t happen’). Imagine a couple denying to their neighbours that they had a huge row last night when they know everybody could hear it, and you’re in the right territory." - an excerpt from Tom Phillips' Truth: A Brief History Of Bullshit. Ok. So today, I want you to write a letter to Yellow lies. The colour of shame, embarrassment and failure. I am sure many of us here are familiar with shame, embarrassment, failure and the lies we tell to cover them up. Uncolour your yellow lies in this uncovered letter of yours.
