The Great Pretender

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

What is so special to pretend to be someone they are not? I wonder why they like to do that and they usually over exaggerate the story to make us believe their stories. They always pretend to be someone who is famous, rich, smart, popular, sick or special.

Is it because of low self esteem? What pleasure they will get by pretending to be someone else? I think on the internet maybe 1out of 10 will pretend to be someone they're not. If the purpose to make friendship, it will dishonest friendship to start with. Don't they know that one lie leads to another lie?

Refer to this link below how recognize them.

credit to :- http://www.helium.com/items/642522-online-fakers-recognizing-people-who-misrepresent-themselves-on-the-internet

Quote from the above website " It is fun often role playing as someone else or dreaming that you were different, but in the end, you are still who you are no matter what."

By the way, to hide or to keep secret of personal life is totally different from pretending to be someone they are not.

Let me share this interesting Poem:-

One Lie Leads To Another Lie

By so called reputable people we so often are misled
And one lie leads to another lie as we often have heard said
And to cover up for one lie another lie you must tell
'Tis a thorny path to heaven but an easy path to hell.

One lie leads to another lie that always is the case
Your first lie for deception and your second to save face
And when you are faced with the truth the truth you will deny
And to lie to you comes easy so you tell another lie.

One lie leads to another lie if what you say is untrue
Then another lie you must tell and your lies won't stop at two
But the truth of guilt will free you though the truth can be hard to speak
And to lie is always easy and 'tis easy to be weak.

Look at ex President Bill Clinton to millions of people he lied
When his affair with Monica Lewinsky in public he denied
Had he told the truth in the first place of guilt he would have set himself free
But he took for him the easy option and he lied quite easily.

One lie leads to another lie and to more lies that will lead
And to cover for the lies you've already told a good memory you need
And though the truth at times is hard to speak the truth will serve you best
For the truth will always ring true in a lie detector test.

Francis Duggan

credit to : http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-lie-leads-to-another-lie/