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It is common in our lives that obligations and commitments arise with which we should comply because that is precisely what we are expected to do. Study to take a final exam, go to school, accompany mom to the doctor, go to the birthday of our best friend, going to the wedding of the daughter of a mother's friend, are some examples of the aforementioned commitments and obligations that may appear to us.

But of course, we do not always want to meet them and there the problem will appear... because, how do we tell our best friend that we are tired and We don't want to go to his birthday party that takes place very late at night?… Difficult, but not impossible, and for that there is what is in our language we call excuse.

The excuse is that reason or pretext that someone alleges in order to evade any obligation as just indicated above. While that argument that is offered as an excuse does not redeem the person from the obligation that he has not fulfilled and that he had to fulfill, in some way, acts as a mitigating

compliance compliant, because it tries by means of explaining why it was not fulfilled.

Specific examples of excuses can be when you tell a friend that he did not attend your birthday party. birthday, not because he forgot, but because he had to study for a final exam very important. And another, very common, to lie, when the teacher is told before the call to teach a lesson, that it was not studied because the night before he was ill, with a fever and a lot of decay.

From the examples provided it is also clear how conclusion that many times people often resort to lies or the so-called white lie and use them as an excuse for not having been able to accomplish something effectively.
Obviously it is not good at all to lie but without a doubt it is the lies that we mostly use as excuses for something.

On the other hand, we often use the excuse a lot to apologize for some omission or mistake that we have made with something or someone, either due to ignorance, negligence or simply because we have forgotten. Also in these cases it is common for us to use lies.
I did not greet you yesterday for your birthday because with so many worries I forgot.

Basically, what people propose giving excuses for what has not been done or omitted is to find "forgiveness" in the interlocutor and to convey that of course we are sorry for not having fulfilled what was expected of us.

When people are not interested in something or someone and do not care to provide an excuse.

As a consequence of the above and although formally it is not one of the senses of the term, the word excuse is often used by many people as a synonym for a lie, to refer to a situation in which falsehood was incurred.
The reason for this misuse, yes, but real, is usually found in what we have already mentioned above lines, in that as sometimes excuses lie for shame of not having remembered or done, this or that thing, then, it is that it falls into the aforementioned confusing and wrong.

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