in the search of...
TRUTH.
what is the truth. one of my friends started to question truth a few days ago. im sure he didnt do tt just then. but the doubt of truth must have been on his mind for a long time already.
so really. what is truth?
is it the actual real fact? then how do u know it's real? how do u know it's not fabricated? how do you not know tt everything tt u once believed and everything tt you stood for are all fake. a lie. a big grand illusion. you dont. you cant.
some ppl say u will know and experience the truth once you meet ur maker a.k.a when u're occupying some space in some icy porcelain like jar, but how do you even know if your maker exists? cant u just die and disappear from the face of the earth? must there be a "better" place up there? down there? whichever? then who says it's a better place? what if it's not? how do you know you have a soul? how do you know tt there's God watching over you? what if the sky is really empty and there's no celestial cities up there? and what? you base it all on a thick book? of what? stories? fables? legends? fairy tales? isnt it somewhat like a history text book. and haven you heard abt history. that it's just "fables agreed upon."
www.dictionary.com sums it up the best - Truth: "Conformity to fact or actuality. "
it's a horrifying thought. human beings adapt easily. just like in 1984, oryx and crake. when you change a fact or a way of life initially, the people who were from the past usually becomes unhappy. depressed, as if something is lacking. having a missing puzzle in their lives like martha cochrene. but look at the future generations. they accepted it whole heartedly. women as mere vaginas? oh sure. my ancestors were all like tt. it's perfectly normal for me to do this.
realised what was troubling everyone in our literature text? it was their past. their memory. so much so that they lived in them while in their present lives. they dwelled too much in them. but what's wrong with tt? at least it was sth that was real. that once happened. but even that vision could get mired. life gets increasingly different tt you start to wonder if it really existed in the first place. then to pacify yourself you convince yourself that nah, life was always how it is now.
so is conforming really the easiest way out? do we really accept too many facts too readily?
but then let me put it this way. do you wanna be happy?
(let's not complicate the difference of being really happy, and looking the part of it.)
then dun question the essence of truth too much. cos if you do, everything is questionable. yes right down to what makes u think the colour green is called green? dont overdo it.
don't.
posted at [4:45 PM]
fi-ne
