Why Do WE Talk? I met up with an old friend yesterday, and it had been quiet sometime since I last spoke to her. So,after all the initial excitement,hugging and screaming and dancing around whilst holding each other,we got to the brass tacks of each others lives. Her life is good, well thats because she is not married,has a great circle of friends and does a job she is absolutely passionate about. I envy her! So, except for a few life turning events, her life is pretty smooth sailing. Then came my turn, and my life too is pretty smooth sailing too,albeit on turbulent waters, rough tides and motion sickness on this journey of life. Add to that , two children who are hanging onto you for dear life, and well, you get the picture. Its a perfect life, otherwise. Then, just like the friends we are we started talking about our friends, as in sharing information about people we know. Then we spoke about a mutual friend of ours who had gone off radar for a long time and we were trying to piece together the jigsaw puzzle of her life. During that course of conversation, I realized how, we as people, use information that we have and turn it into malicious slander. There is an actual disorder, thats been connected to all humans, and it goes with a very German name, I will type the name of the disorder once my memory serves me well.This disorder, basically diagnoses, what we all know for a very long time, that we take pleasure in the downfall and hard times of friends and family. that we actually feel good and better about ourselves,when someone we like or dont like have fallen into hard times. The reason I go into this slander and our feeling good about it, is because during a part of her troubled times I was with my friend and I knew a part of the truth. Yet, to hear the account of her story so exaggeratedly mis-told by my friend still shocked me. And, yet i ask myself, what is truth? Truth is our perception of what we have been handed out and what we see, and the very same truth is something else to the other party involved. Still the same truth looks quiet like something else to the spectators who watch the show. There is in that moment, no right and wrong, it always come down to ,I am wronged, to everybody involved. Truth is what we hold onto for our dear life,we hold onto what we know to be true for us,and holding onto that, we expect the on lookers, compassionate listeners to see our truth. Yet what they see, is more often than not, their truth,and they speak from a platform of their truth. Sometimes there is compliance, most times there is rebellion,often without the knowledge that we do not rebel against the other party, but what they think to be true, which to us is not. Why then, does this battle of truth affect so much? Well, i think its because, all of us are inherently wired to act and behave in alliance with an universal truth, which is to be true to ourselves. To be real to ourselves, we need to look deep within to catch a glimpse of ourselves which is so well concealed in the layered folds of societal conditioning and upbringing. Our magnificent inner self, cannot rest without constantly waging a war against our ego, to bring its resplendent true nature to the surface..
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 02:39:57 +0000
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