Does lying ever make things any better? I watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer, “Lie To Me.” One of Buffy’s friends from her old high school, Ford, moves to Sunnydale. He says his dad got a job there and he would be finishing his senior year there. Angel is suspicious of Ford so he goes to Willow to research on him and find out he is not even registered in the school’s database. Willow, Angel, and Xander go to a hang out place that Ford is associated with and find out there are a bunch of people who want to be turned into a vampire. Ford meets up with Spike and tells him he can get them Buffy is Spike will turn him into a vampire. Ford asks Buffy out that night in order to lure her into the hang out with all the wanna-be vampires and Spike and all his vampires. Buffy tries to convince Ford to stop everything, but he tells her he only has six months to live and he wants to become a vampire to avoid that, while he is still healthy, in the physical sense. This is the first point when lying would have made the situation easier, because by Buffy knowing this she feels bad for him and it makes stopping everything harder. In the end Buffy and all the wanna-be vampires get away but Ford is left with Spike and all the other vampires. She returns for his body and later visits his grave. As she is talking about how hard life is and asks Giles if life ever gets easier. Ford jumps out of his grave and Buffy slays him. That pretty much answered her question.
This episode shows how hard life can be, but the truth nor a lie can really help. Life is made the way it is, you have to fight past the tough times to make it to the good times.
I know and making it through the tough times makes you that much stronger. You learn from them and just by going through something terrible makes the next time a little but easier depending on what it is.
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