TRUTH

All my life, I have been searching for the truth. It’s one of my biggest mottoes in life, to be honest and to find the truth.

The only problem is that there is no "the" truth, ie. there is no absolute truth. In this world we live in, there is actually no absolute anything. There was this guy I knew long time ago (!!!) who told me that only TIME is absolute. But according to Einstein, even that is not absolute!

So there are different sides to a truth. Of course the truth has some facts which could look very absolute but even those are not truly so. (If you can’t follow my “scrap” anymore, it’s because I am following some philosophy courses this year)

Let’s pick an example. Imagine me going to a trip to say… Italy, then getting very emotional seeing this person who is very hot, and say… kiss him once, a deep French kiss, a very passionate kiss. Let’s also assume that it stays by a kiss and it does not go further (it’s just an assumption, we all know that if a kiss is that passionate, it can have some other implications…). Further, we can assume that I have a relationship and I decide not telling my partner about the KISS. In a very odd way though, the minute I arrive back home, my partner has an idea that something has happened. He will then ask me: “is there something you want to tell me?” I will then say: “no.” Let’s analyze this for a minute, shall we?

What is the truth? Am I lying?

Technically I am not lying, because I don’t WANT to tell anything to him, and he is asking me whether there is something I WANT to tell him. If I wanted to, I would have told him myself, and wouldn’t have waited until he asked me to.

Let’s go on a bit further. Time will pass, and the whole “trip & kissing” thing would then seem like ages before and I would certainly feel very safe, thinking I was so smart, not have been caught. Of course my partner has always had this gut feeling telling him there is something missing, but as one of my good friends; Sogol, always says “until you have not said it, it never happened”. Anyway, let's assume the person who was in Italy kissing happens to be an a**hole and sends an e-mail to my partner. Then all hell breaks loose.

Let’s say after hell breaks loose, the only belt remaining to fasten is telling the truth! But what side of the truth? I already said before that there are different kinds of truths. So this is an example of another kind of telling the TRUTH: “Baby, I already told you what happened” Or “I am getting really tired of all this bullshit you are accusing me of.” And of course, the best truthful answer to the question: “I just want to know the truth, you owe me at least that much” is “I already told you everything there is to tell.”

Well in the first answer, the whole truth is that I already told you parts of what happened, the other parts I left out, so I am telling half the truth but still not lying. In the second answer, I again am telling the truth, because I do get tired of answering all those cross-examinations. And in the final one, the parts that are left out are simply, things that are not tell-able in my opinion.

As you see, technically, there are different sides to the truth.

There are other examples I can give, just watch the larry king show interviewing The Islamic Republic's president Ahmadinejad (I delibrately didn't say Iran's president) to see that the truth can have different angels to justify any crime!

I believe in telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. But even I know that, that needs guts, guts to show who you truly are, and guts to take off the mask. Shamefully not all of us have that self confidence of being who we are. I can be myself, the whole myself and nothing but myself. Can you?