Truth
Like everything else, ‘truth’ has had its fair share of different definitions. There are many people whose job is finding the truth. Come to think of it, truth is anything that the majority believes in. If only the minority believe in something, regardless of whether or not that thing is absolutely true, it won’t be true. What is truth without a consequence anyway, even if the consequence is mere recognition of something as being true? But it’s not always the case that the majority will believe in the right thing. The factors influencing the choice of belief of the majority is another trivial and hard topic which may not easily come into the picture here. In essence, it is wiser and safer to completely forget about that word. There is no such thing as ‘truth’.
There is no truth if it its corner stones are built on the perceptions of the majority. There is no truth if we have got to use reported speech or something from the past to prove its existence. And there is no truth as long as man continues to be man living (at least) in this life. For as long as man is still man and living in this life, man will never say the truth if its consequences are detrimental to them. In a natural setting, there is always an equal number of people believing in something as those that don’t. But when there are either good or bad consequences to a certain belief, these numbers will not easily be equal. And that’s when truth is lost.
Anything extracted from the past is vague. It is vague because we often cannot translate contexts. Without context, we lose the backbone of any past occurrences and we therefore cannot satisfactorily claim that we are conveying truth. We have spent many years of our lives having different opinions of how something happened. These different opinions have been shaped around their suitability for different people and their positions in the society or in the circumstances. We have refused to compromise. We have refused to bend lower than our egos and accept something as being the way it is or the way it happened. We have polluted the very river of truth at the mouth of which we have sat with containers of expectations trying to fetch ‘truth’.
But man is the same. What is wrong to one man is wrong to another man and the other. So long as this revelation is not made in public, man knows when they are lying and when they are not, when they know something is right and when they know it is wrong. Man can never, though, go down without self-defense, even if that defense compromises what they know as right or true. This is where the story is in the modern world. Man is captured between accepting and acknowledging things as they are and trying to change facts to suit themselves and their positions. Man is presently working day and night to discover truth.
There is no truth. But if truth exists, it exists no farther than in individual’s minds; as soon as mouths are opened, something else pours out depending on the individual and what they claim they are fighting for. So belief kicks in, whereby belief is anything qualified as ‘true’ by different reasons and views. Next is depression. Depression for failure to establish truth. Then sadness. Madness. End of story.
It doesn’t matter what truth is, and whether or not it exists. It doesn’t matter what people think and whether or not they know about us from the past. Time is neither ripe in the past nor in the future. Context will never be transferable from the past or postponed to the future. So we can’t look on either side of today. If we can forget what people say about us and what they have taught themselves to think about us, if we can stop wasting time trying to find out what ‘happened’ and if we can believe in what we know as true and keep the faith, I believe, we will be happy.
