What is 'the truth'?
Is it even possible to answer that question? My 'truth' will be very different from your 'truth', so could there ever be an all-encompassing 'truth' in the world? I don't think there could be. So truth must be a unique premise. Is the sky blue because I say it is? If someone agrees with me, does that make it universal?
So what then is 'my truth'? Three people could sit in a room and experience the exact same event and have completely different 'truth'. (Ask anyone in the legal system; eyewitnesses are useless). So irrelevant to what everyone else sees, my 'truth' is nothing but what I see. What I feel, what I do.
Does that mean I can control 'the truth'? If truth is a matter of individual perception, and yet I can surely steer my own thoughts and actions, does that mean I decide 'the truth'? Or does 'the truth' have to be more passive than that?
It's true that I am at this very moment wearing blue slippers with white snowflakes. But I chose to put them on. It's true that I often feel worthless and meaningless in this world, but I chose to let those thoughts take over until I really feel it in my bones instead of tossing the idea.
What if I chose to wear fluffy green socks instead? Or what if I chose to think that I am an important part of the universe? 'The truth' can change, and it's all up to me.
Creative Writing Prompt #58: A drunk man sits next to you in a bar, thinks you're his buddy and starts confessing 'the truth'. Write about what 'the truth' is.
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