Have you ever wondered why you believe something? Or why you don’t believe something? Most often, our beliefs come from what we’ve been told by another human whom we trusted for truth. Not until we’ve grown, do we realize that some of those we trusted weren’t telling us the truth. This may, or may not, have been intentional. Sometimes, we can feel when something isn’t right, or true. Sometimes, we are fooled. Our job now as adults is to decipher and discern fact from fiction. It’s an exhaustion that is lifelong, trying to squeeze the truth out of every facade of manipulation, and at every level of our reality. I believe we’ve culturally come to a point where none of us know what to believe anymore, and someone is always benefitting from that. I think the Covid shut-downs forced everyone to slow down a minute, get off the hamster wheel and gain a different perspective. No matter the “agenda” or chaos ensued, many of us learned a whole lot about what we thought we knew. Some of us just got angry and fell into the blame game, taking it all out on each other until it passed, and then we were given another distraction to argue about. With each new distraction and deflection, we choose what to believe. Ultimately, someone will disagree and absolutely not believe what you believe, truth or not. Personally, I have found that there’s a little bit of truth in everything, from the right (or wrong) perspective. We are so alike as humans, but our life paths (and every moment, every person, every experience) are so individually unique. Our perspectives, and lived truths, vary so greatly. I think we should all be fascinated with each other’s differences, instead of picking apart anything and anyone that doesn’t conform to our liking and what we believe is right and true. I think voicing our opinions and sharing our concerns in order to point out our perspectives on truth is absolutely the right thing to do. However, we must always consider our impact. Being hurtful, intentionally, is not right. Unintentionally offending someone with your opinion is one thing, but trying to be offensive and hurtful is out of line and wrong. We are all entitled to believe our truths that we have gained through our life experiences, we are not entitled to hurt others for not seeing things the same way. If we could stop ourselves every time a judgement forms in our mind, and choose to open our mind instead, we could learn so much from each other. Who knows, maybe even change what we choose to believe, even though we believed it to be true our entire lives! I have learned that there is so much we don’t even know that we don’t know. Let’s learn and teach each other, find the truths and share our beliefs and experiences. Life is too short to spend it arguing about anything. Enjoy every moment, every drop, every breath, every perspective until we all fly away.
