* MADAME ZILENSKY AND THE KING OF FINLAND *

Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland

There are many people who lie in this world. As a humane society, we grew up to believe that lying is a wrong doing and anyone that lies is not worthy of being trusted with later on. Although, there are people in this world who still insist on lying even when the outcome may not be in any way rewarding. Society considers these people to be below reasoning; it’s these people that ruin the trustful world of today. Yet oddly, there are those who accept those that lies. When one lies to another, the trust is lost and all that is left to do is either reject their lies or accept them.

Madame Zilensky, who was a composer and a pedagogue, was not well known but had an impressive reputation from her works. Mr. Brooks, the music department at Ryder College, hired Madame Zilensky to teach at the school he was working at. As time went on, they would talk and eat together at the college. Mr. Brooks was always fascinated by the stories Madame Zilensky told to him. The stories were all very exciting with different people and social events. They were so amazing that they almost had something wrong with the stories, and soon Mr. Brooks found out what it was.

Then Madame Zilensky told Mr. Brooks about the time she met the King of Finland, and instantly he found out what was agitating him all along. The words that came out of Madame Zilensky’s mouths were all lies. With little researching, he found out that there is no King of Finland, and scheduled a meeting with her to discuss this matter. He confronted her about the lies and deceptions, but she insisted she did see the King of Finland. And after a rigorous battle of getting Madame Zilensky to admit she’s a liar, he soon realized that she had no intentions of lying, because it seemed to be her nature to lie. Then Mr. Brooks gave up chasing her ill-witted self and decided to go along with the act.

Madame Zilensky lied because she might not have a choice. She may have grown up with lying people around her, or she was raised up to lie. Some people can lie without a moment’s hesitation, and others may lie without a second-thought. And in this world we lie in, we can only either accept them or reject them.

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