Truth

This is a truly infinite topic.  It has endless angles.

There is the aspect of truth that is about our truth, who we think we are and what we think we strive for and motivates us.  Then there is the aspect of truth of how people see us.  Do they see us for who we are or do they have an impression of the personae that we project, never truly being able to understand who we are?  And then there is the whole concept of what is real versus of what is not real.  The whole thing is very, very, complex.  Someone used to tell me:  "There's your truth, there's the other person's truth and then there's the truth".   To summarize, truth is quite elusive.

I go back to what I raised in my post, What is Real? posted on July 8th.  As I told my very best friend in the world "probably one thing we can count on as being real are our feelings". That means we have to trace back our feelings to the source.  Do we feel hurt because the person involved has been showing consistent disregard for who we are and we have reached our limit?  Or does it remind us of how we were treated by our parents when we were growing up - largely ignored?  The possibilities of the source of our feelings are endless.

It doesn't really matter.  The source is irrelevant.  It is impossible to trace back to the origin of our feelings.  Was it the nun that berated me for stealing a book I didn't steal when I was five years old?  That is an endless investigation that would drive anyone crazy.

So what's important is to feel.  To feel the hurt and to feel the joy and to feel the disappointment.  And to know that it's real.  And to honor that.  To feel is a luxury in itself.  With all the stimulation around us, it's hard to distinguish what we feel as human beings with what we are "encouraged" to feel by what the media presents to us on a daily basis.

Feel.  You are alive.  What a wonderful gift.  You can deal with anything if you choose to do so.  And, most important, be optimistic about your life.  It's all about building.  Building relationships, building confidence within yourself and building your life based on how you deal with your reality  today.

That's what I'm doing.  Stay tuned.