Sweet Lies

(Baonghean.vn) - Sometimes "A well-intentioned lie is better than a painful truth"...

The story goes that year in a small town in England there was a bank robbery, the robber did not steal the money but was surrounded inside. He took a 5 year old child hostage and demanded the police to prepare a large sum of money and a car for him, otherwise he would shoot and kill the hostage.

The police sent an expert to negotiate, but the robber still stubbornly refused to surrender. When the robber intended to kill the hostage, the police opened fire with a sniper rifle, the robber screamed and fell to the ground. The boy saw the blood stains and heard the gunshots, so he was scared and cried loudly. The man took the opportunity to run over and hug the boy.

Just then, the media had just arrived in droves, and everyone suddenly heard a man shouting: “Well done, the rehearsal is over!” The boy stopped crying after hearing this and asked his mother if that was true. His mother held back her tears and nodded. Another police officer also walked over to the boy and comforted him: “You performed well, you deserve a reward.”

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In the following days, the media was silent, no one said a word about the robbery because they understood that it was the best way to protect the boy's soul! Many years later, a middle-aged man came to see and asked the man who had saved the boy: "Why did you shout like that at that moment?"

He smiled and replied: “When the gunshots rang out, I thought that the boy would be haunted for the rest of his life by such a terrifying event. But as I got closer to the boy, it seemed that God had given me a hint and so I blurted out the words “The drill is over!” At this moment, the middle-aged man burst into tears and hugged him: “I am the same child from back then, I have been lied to for the past 30 years, until recently, my mother told me the truth. Thank you, thank you for giving me a healthy life!”

He looked at the middle-aged man and smiled, “Don’t thank me! If you want to thank me, thank all those who knew about it but were still willing to “deceive” you!” The police officer’s actions were truly admirable, he had brought something wonderful to a child’s life, protecting the boy’s innocent soul.

...And sometimes “A well-intentioned lie is better than a painful truth”

Thu Phuong (synthesis)