The Five Truths

 

When people say “the truth” they often are confused as to what this truly mean.  Many will tell you that there are but two ways to do things, the right way, and the wrong way when really there are quite a few more ways.  These other ways are often hidden from the view of many because they are never recognized or unacceptable to suit our idea of the truth.

There is the perceived truth which spawns all other truths.  This perceived truth originates from what you were told, what you have learned and what you have perceived during your lifetime.  The number one reason for it being the perceived truth is that what we view as the majority of human beings believe.  Consider being told that the sky was blue.  We perceive this to be true based upon it being widely accepted and repeated as the truth, but what if whomever gave us the name of colors were wrong and what we consider blue now is brown.  Would then the sky be brown instead of blue?

Then comes my truth which may often match the perceived truth and only conflicts or differs based upon my experience during my lifetime.  For example, you meet a stranger and through your experience, they show you the proper respect and courtesy, now I come along and this same person fails or refuse to show that same kind of care and compassion towards me.  Our truths will differ about that person simply based upon our experience with them.  You may argue that they are a good person while I will argue that they are not.  Neither of us is wrong, it is just our individual truth.

Next is your truth which also stems from your experiences during your lifetime.  Since neither of us can ever live the life that the other has, we cannot know for sure which road not taken was best.  Your truth is your truth and like all truths, should be respected regardless if it matches with mine or not.  We often adhere so tightly to our truth that we fail or refuse to even listen and hear another’s truth.  If what you believe does not comport with what I believe then we rush back to the respective corners of one being right and the other being wrong.  Since many of us have a deep sense of always wanting to be right, we now seek other ways to prove just how right we are and often this is done through violence or the belittling of the other.

The next type is our truth which occurs when we set out in search of others who see this thing the same way as I do and once they are located, we band together to go forth into the world spewing our truth.  This truth and the final truth, their truth, are almost identical in this regard.  Now we have warring factions of a society fighting over who is right and who is wrong, not once or even willing to admit and accept that they both could be right.  We continue this without ever realizing that soon my truth and your truth becomes diluted by our truth and their truth.  When this happens, we soon find ourselves wondering through life trying to regain ourselves and wondering how we personally got so far off course.

The lesson here being, know your truth and be willing and able to defend it.  Respect listen to and hear their truth with consideration of their right to have it.  Accept that there surely may be more than one way to do something, then look for the similarities within these truths.  You may find that you share more of the truth than you know and wouldn’t that be a kicker.  A kicker that proves that even though we disagree, this does not make us enemies, but then evil would lose it’s grip on humanity and evil just can’t have us working together because it thrives on division, do you?