EVERYBODY IS LYING.

Yes, you read that right.

After watching over 14 episodes of How to Get Away With Murder, I’ve come to this conclusion.

In the words of Annalise Keating,

“there’s no truth in the courtroom, there’s just your version of what happened versus theirs. That’s how the justice system works. It’s not what’s right or what’s fair, it’s who tells the most convincing story.”

The truth is, there is more than one side to every story.

There’s the head, the tail, and the edge.

To truly understand the whole story, you have to sit on the edge, where you can see both the head and the tail clearly. But most times, we’re either facing the head or the tail. That’s all we see. So when someone else tells their side, it sounds like a lie to us, simply because it’s different from what we know. And maybe they're lying.

At the end of the day, it’s not really about who is lying or who isn’t.

It’s about what you choose to believe. You're always choosing to believe something.

And that’s one scary thing I’ve learned from this series.

Because honestly, I used to think, “How do lawyers even live with themselves?”

But it’s not just lawyers that bend the truth while knowing the real story. You and I do it too.

We live with ourselves by choosing what feels right to believe.

We may never know for sure who’s lying, but we always pick the side of the story that works best for us.

Dearest reader, as they say,

“If the shoe fits, wear it.”

That’s how we go on.

@favvy_Okwans🖤.