Truth!

"Truth". The word itself may seem easy to define, but in all actuality it may be the hardest word to define. Everyone can claim what they believe to be true but there will always be another person who will ask: "How do you know its true?" Truth always seems to be in question in all of our lives and in our society today, whether its the medias distortion of the truth or your friend telling you a little white lie, we never are really sure what to believe. Perhaps there's no such thing as an absolute truth but rather only perspectives and beliefs. "But David wait! What do you mean there is no such thing as an absolute truth? We know we are here don't we? We all die right? That's the truth!": an angry reader may say to me. But in all honesty how do we know this? How do we know we really are her, how do we know what will happen to us? The answer to that is that we don't. To me and all my years of living I've come to the realization that an absolute truth doesn't exist. Everyone has a different perspective and we make our own truths. We define what we believe is true and what we believe is fake. Some of us hate conspiracy theories and dismiss them as "fake" while some us bask in conspiracy theories and believe it to be true.I don't mean to come off controversial or anything but come on, think about it. How do we actually know something is true? I never really put this much thought into what the truth is, but after our discussions on TTTC everyone brought up really good points that made me think a lot. Some would say we know there are truths while others would say some peoples truths are not true for others. I also saw the validity of truth being questioned in the actual book. O'Brien constantly switches up the truth and we don't know what to believe. "For example, we've all heard this one. Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the blast and saves his three buddies. Is it true? The answer matters."(O'Brien, How to tell a true war story) He constantly blurs the line between truth and fiction in the story which leaves the reader unsatisfied with he's telling them. He frustrated me when he said one thing was not true after he spent a  whole chapter telling us it was true. Maybe hat was the effect he was going for. Maybe he wanted us to be frustrated with finding  the truth in the book just like we are with finding the truth in real life.