Friday, November 04, 2005

What is truth?

There is nothing I love more than sitting down to read a book that is filled with truth. Truth, you say? What is that? Is it the facts of life? The story of someone's situation? What happened on the way to the forum?

Truth, at least from my point of view, is that deep, deep core of a soul that you find in a character. The part that is stripped down to nothing and is left only with what it faces and what it might do. That is the truth of life.

It's not what happens every day. It's not what we see or hear. It's not plot. It's not story. It's soul. It's what a soul has to go through to survive. It's what a soul has to learn to go on. It's what a soul fights against in himself before he can make the right decision.

Truth is that thing that comes at us and beats us over the head until we give in and do what it wants.

I have actually met people who never met truth. I wonder what planet they live on.

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