The True Meaning of Truth

What is the the biggest life-changing experience that you have ever had in your life?
Whenever I ask this question, most people jump to matters of the heart. The death of a mother, breaking up with your first boyfriend. Some people choose another - a particularly touching movie, a call of faith. But as we look at these in a wider view, what are they but our own personal quest for truth in the world?

Each and every one of us is blindly navigating inside of a void. A void in which millions of possible explanations are provided; meandering aimlessly, weightlessly. What do we search for in life?
If we really and truly take a look at this, we will find that all of us search for the same thing quintessentially. Ever since our childhood, we have been swarmed upon by ideas and fantasies that adults wished for us to see in the world. Cinderella taught us to believe that true love conquers everything; Wall-E taught us that despite serious flaws in mankind, we each have the capacity for good in the world. When we piece the puzzles together, we come up with a picture of the "ideal" world that each and every one of us hopes for. Peace. Harmony. Love that never dies. Chivalry. The list goes on. But if all we want is to show our children the way the world really is; why don't we show them the five o' clock news every day instead of their t.v. shows? Why don't we show them, from the start, that life isn't really what it seems to be? Haven't we all wished at some point and time that our parents had told us the truth about some things, instead of hiding it from us?

So why don't we? This is why: love. We love our children so much, that we would want anything for them to remain as blissfully ignorant as possible in their young lives. We don't want them to watch with horror as bombs are dropped upon families while they sleep, we don't want them to walk with boredom and routine to the Christmas tree as they pretend to be excited about their gifts. We want their innocence preserved for as long as possible; to prolong the time until they too are condemned with bags under their eyes and a cold sweat flushed down their body as they count the seconds until this nightmare is finally over.

And in the end - what is truth? Is an optimistic view less realistic then a cynical one? Does love blind us about the capacity to do things? Does imagination mean that we cannot participate in honest politics? No. For although some of us may view the glass as half full or half empty, the question that we need to ask ourselves is - what is the glass? Where did it come from? And what is our water, the thing we cannot live without? Not one person knows what our purpose here on earth is. Some turn to religion, some to work, some to love. Each and every human being, out there, groping in the darkness. Hoping to find a handhold. Something. Anything. We all see these visions, created in our childhood, of an ideal way that life should happen. But then life happens, and suddenly the half full jug of lemonade becomes a quarter full shot of whiskey at a bar.

So before you question anything next time, take a step back. For although all of us are full of answers, not one of them is true. For what is truth, but what we make of a situation? Every person can be a face until you let them into your heart. We as humans over-complicate what is complicated already. So stop over-complicating things. Stop questioning things.
We. Don't. Know. The. Answer.

And do you know what?
I wouldn't have it any other way.

- Bird Bird in a Small Cage.