In life, there are three kinds of truth that exist:
- The truth that we choose to invent and distort because it is convenient for us.
- Other people’s truth, which can be extremely inconvenient.
- And then the simple truth, the one that waits for us to discover it, understand it, and finally accept it.
Here’s a mostly harmless not so much surprise for you: I’m a big believer in telling the truth…but it is my truth, convenient for me and inconvenient for others. The lesson that I’m learning is that no one really wants to hear the truth. The lesson we all must learn is that eventually the truth will find a way to make itself known. Just look at this guy:
What we do with the simple truth: understand it and accept it, or reject it and go back to our own or even others, is really up to us. Every single second of the day we have the power to look inside ourselves and discover the truth as to why we are behaving the way we do; why we repeat unhealthy patterns; why we aren’t giving our 100% in making our lives joyful and peaceful; why we aren’t making the world a better place to live in.
Being honest with others is a breeze compared to being honest with ourselves. It takes a lot of hard work, tough questions, and brutal answers to find our inner truth. Most of all, it takes commitment and discipline.
It’s so very easy to bury our truth in denial, lies, and drama. How can we be expected to take the time to be honest with ourselves when we’re angry, hurt, wronged, and sad? No one wants to take a good look at themselves during a dark moment and acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, perhaps there is a teeny tiny itsy bitsy little possibility that we are responsible in some small minuscule practically microscopic way for the state our lives find themselves to be in.
No thank you. We’ll pass.
Yet I can’t help but think what an incredible disservice we do to our souls by not being honest with ourselves. All the missed opportunities, the positive moments, the reality that life can be so much better than what it is RIGHT. NOW. AT. THIS. EXACT. SECOND. IN. TIME.
All because we didn’t want to tell ourselves the truth. Because the truth is scary, requires work, makes us do introspection, and take responsibility for our actions.
I have to be responsible for me, my actions, my words, my thoughts, my feelings; and I have to be truthful while doing so. I have to be committed and disciplined to find my inner truth.
That’s a hell of a lot to ask of myself.
And yet…
I truly believe I’m worth it.
We are all worthy of being the BEST people that we can be, and that starts with one single step:
