Not your truth, not what is proven to be true, but this concept of truth.
Is it another word millennials use to hide behind? Like vibes, like hold on to your own truth, and like the earth is flat, there are certain truths we hold that have been in place for some time. I wonder, why do we call it our truth? I read this post and the writer talks about struggles they experience. This writer desires basic decency even if others disagrees with their truth. It was this thought that triggered me to think about truths. You see like religion, like political positions, like you and me there are truths we believe to be absolute truths.
Many have compared it to science, to math, to faith. To whatever makes sense to them. All that to say, my previous boss worked in sales and had a saying I found a lot of truth in.
”Change is the only constant.”
Change is the only constant we can count on, change is the only predictable move, change is the only consistent “insert your truth here.” Similarly, my faith states that my God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. My faith is my truth. My truth is the only constant that doesn’t change. The people that believe in it change. The people that represent my faith change, but my God is constant. People that believe in it change the constant. Therefore, constant truth and people change. I think that makes sense.
Is it true that constant is truth and people are change? Not do people change, but people are change.
With that logic, would it make sense if I stated that constant isn’t the variable? Nor is change the variable. Or maybe it is. What I'm trying to say is change is the perception of the truth which isn't always constant. Have I lost you? I think I lost myself. Let’s see if I can make sense of my nonsense. If the world is the same, the “same” is constant change, and if people are also the same, then the same change is constant. I think we’ve gone full circle. We’ve established that change is constant, truth is constant, and every combination of the word is true too.
Maybe we can’t trust our feelings and thoughts because like I said our truth is based on people who are constantly changing. All that to say, you’re entitled to your opinion, to your faith, and to your truth. Just remember as your feelings, perceptions, and understandings change it is the constant you can count on. What is your constant? What is your ever-changing, never-changing truth? What is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow that you can count on never changing?
