Is Lying Always Bad?

Everyone may lie to people many times in their whole life. Some people lie because they want to do the bad thing. On the other hand, some people lie just because they do not want to hurt other people. Is lying always bad? I don’t think so. I think that many people tell the white lie.
There is a story about the white lie. A postman who always send letters to the mountain and there was an old woman lived in a house alone. She was a blind people so the postman would read the letter which was from her son to her. Then that postman will retired soon and he took his disciple to go to see the old woman. The postman told his disciple that he should read the letter to the old woman. When the young postman started to read the letter, he found that there were no words in the letter. He was confused and he asked the old postman. The old postman told him that the old woman’s son was dead in the war, but she did not know. She thought that her son was live in the big city and very busy, so he could not come back. The old woman would wait his son’s letter everyday and she always said that her son was a good person. The old postman did not tell the truth to the old woman because he did not want to see her to be sad. So, he told his disciple that he should come to the old woman’s house everyday and read her the letter.
Lying is not a good habit for us. However, there are some situations that we have to tell the lie. Truth is always being cruel. Telling the lie is just to make people feel well. So I think that lying is not always bad. (311)