Yesterday, I was contemplating this question.
The answer is yes, truth is everywhere around me and in every moment I live; it takes the shape of my realities and there's no escaping the truth and those realities.
I know how I feel, my own emotions and thoughts and there's truth there.
I know my own personal situation and realities, what I live through day to day and have to accomplish in those days, and there's truth there.
I know that I can look over and see a man who looks back at me with love, tenderness, care and concern. That's the truth, I know it because he's right there and will be tomorrow, and the next day and the next. There's truth there.
There's so much truth and reality in my life that often I want to escape it, take a holiday from the cold harsh realities and live a little easier; find rest, silence and solace. My life right now is very complicated for many reasons and I struggle at times to cope with it all; an escape would be nice, but I'd take my man along, that reality is something I cannot go without and that's the truth too.
The photograph was taken by me - I call it, keeping an eye on truth and perception.
But what about other people...what do they see when they look over the fence at me and my life?
No, there's no truth generally speaking, just perception, and despite that perception being their truth it doesn't make it the actual truth despite people often pushing it upon others as if railroading them makes an observers perception the true reality of the person being observed.
Imagine that each of us is in a hallway lined with doors on either side, some open and some closed, and as we move along, constantly passing doors, we glance within seeing snippets of what may be inside, but before we see it all and with any clarity we've moved forward to the next. Some doors are also closed completely, or slightly ajar, and try as we might we can never gain a full view, perspective or full understanding unless we are in the room. That's often how people's perceptions of others are gained, mere snippets hastily stuck together to provide what, to them, is a reality...*but it's rarely the reality or truth, if ever.
I was speaking with my guy yesterday who has just had a situation in which he was perceived a particular way, falsely, and he dealt with it reasonably well. I could see he was hurting though despite his stoic nature; he is human after all, a tough and resilient human, but also just human and subject to the frailties of the species. I see his vulnerabilities and the false perception of him had cut deeply. We talked it through and came out the other side and into a better place however it left me thinking about truth and perception and how getting it all wrong can be extremely hurtful.
For most, facts and the realities of a situation others may be in don't matter, only their own perceptions of it. That's how human beings are made I suppose, however I have worked hard to temper my perceptions and not allow them to tumble into judgements too quickly as those perceptions and judgements, and actions taken because of them, could be, and often are, completely unfounded and the actions damaging.
Often though, that truth is created only by perception and contains no actual fact when measured against the actual truth.
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