My Truth. Your Truth.

We all get a truth!!

It is our lucky decade. It seems as if THE TRUTH has been replaced by “my truth” “your truth” and anything but THE truth. I foresee a future swearing-in of witnesses in a courtroom swearing to “tell their truth, their whole truth and nothing but their truth.” Imagine a world where there is no solid truth, just everyone’s version of what makes them feel better. When the phrase “the truth hurts” enters into our conversation we squirm in our seats uncomfortably because we know that this could apply to what we are talking about. Maybe. Possibly. And let’s face it, if we are too far from the truth to make it closer to a lie, the squirmier we become. Ouch.

Thanks to some random person, probably an unknown blogger somewhere, the feel good words “my truth” were pulled out of someone’s nether regions and took off. It is the feel good phrase of the century. It takes away all responsibility of acting in the best interests of the actual TRUTH.

People in the future are going to have no idea what actual truth consists of. Like I said, I am poised for changes to the swearing in process in courtrooms all across the nation. The Bible has already been disappeared from that arena, and the Ten Commandments are rarely seen in a public place anymore. God forbid we should expose the ignorant misbehaving masses to the idea that their lives could be better by just following ten simple commandments. Triggered!

In my opinion, and remember, this blog is just that, my opinion…there is the truth and there are lies. The perception of actual events might be skewed by one’s mental ability to grasp the truth, therefore a lie becomes “their truth”. It sounds way better to say that than say “This is my lie.” Not acceptable in any way shape or form.

The same goes for people who say “This is a gray area.”. Ummm…no. The only thing that makes an area gray are humans. We complicate life by believing there are no absolutes. Remember how nice it was to be a kid? Our parents told us what to eat, when to eat, what to wear and when to sleep. We took them at their word that our day would absolutely be better if we obeyed them. There was order to our lives and we thrived. Then we started adulting and are faced with all these decisions and the horrible reality of staying alive on our own.

I remember when a nap was punishment. And now…well. Don’t we wish??!! We were either bad little kids or good little kids and we learned how to behave and how nice it felt when we were rewarded for good behavior. Giving little children choices about big decisions in their lives may not be the best idea. Children thrive on stability and a firm foundation of love and care. Part of this care is taking the burden of decision off their little shoulders and freeing them up to just exist. They are in the process of learning right from wrong, good from bad and the consequences of each behavior. It is integral to growing into a person who has an inherent moral compass calibrated by parents, during childhood. We are not doing our kids any favors by letting them run the show. It is too much to ask of a child. We give them little decisions, chores and tasks as they progressively get older, but it is important to let them dangle in the worry free garden of innocence and childhood for as long as possible. The day will come soon enough when they will have to deal with being a grown-up and all that comes with it. Our job is to guide them on a righteous path to a future where they know right from wrong; where that niggling little feeling of conviction happens when they do bad stuff and they know the truth.

In the animal kingdom, animals behave like the animals they were created to be. Lions eat the Springbok and the circle of life goes on. God created man to behave a certain way, but when man alters his reality so much that the world is blurred between true life and a life shaped by one’s own warped mind or by other peoples reality and opinion, what kind of existence is that?? You can count on nothing. Nothing is sure and nothing is true. Choose for yourself. Will you live in truth and the assurance of life as it was meant to be? Living in truth gives you peace. Living in truth makes accepting who you are unequivocally, without question.

So, truth is truth. Lies are lies. Black is black. White is white. Never the twain shall meet. Ever. Anywhere.