Fireworks during day.
"What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
It is true that history is always rewritten by the victors. When all is done and said, when the light shines on the victors and the moon rises on the defeated, when the books that existed are burnt to coal and when the pens of the victors are inked, suddenly the route has taken a turn and everything that was...isn't.
But that is not the only truth that is remade. That is not the only battle that fabricates reality. There is a specific truth merged to a specific battle that we celebrate when it is all done and said.
Every second of our lives that matters is derived from the experiences and lessons we learn, from every lighting of a neuron to every static from atoms colliding, it shapes our reality and makes us who we are. Somewhere between everything and nothing that is happening a truth and a lie emerges. A truth we are happy to live with, a lie we are happy to live with. A truth we do not want to deny, a lie we want to deny.
Each side of the coin, and which side we pick then becomes the timeline and set as our reality.
When we step closer on the bigger picture and all the bigger ordeals of the world, we look at the smaller picture that contains us, the real big picture. Because it is the smaller pictures that aggregate to create the really big picture which brings it all together to form the ultimate circle of life. The circle of life that contains everyone and everything.
The tiniest decision we make and the simple choice of either living with a lie or a truth shapes the entirety of our lives. It may look like a simple decision but it snowballs to become the new reality of our lives.
That is the battle that we should take a closer look at. Is it really okay to live with a lie just to please our own idea of happiness, or should we cower to the truth and agree to live with what takes our smiles away? I only bring this question up because I believe that it is the small lies that we agree to live with eventually become so big that they have a huger impact on the world. A small lie as "ah, it is just one plastic bag, it won't end the world!", when we very well know that the earth is at it's worst and we could sacrifice that tiny little convenience and have a rough walk from the store to home and contribute to helping mother Earth a little bit.
A tiny truth...
Which one do you want to live with?
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Very well said:
Thank you. Sometimes it becomes difficult to write down what I have in my mind very eloquently. But it is good to let something out.
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Awesome article! History itself is a hotbed of lies. An amazing 7th grade history teacher I once had started out the year with a little story: A kid plays with a dog but accidentally ends up hurting him, and as a result the dog bites him. Following that, the owner of the dog, and the mother of the kid both tell the story in a different way, each blaming the other one. That's history. The hardcover version taught in schools is usually the victor's lie. But there is often another version, printed on pamphlets and spray-painted on walls, which is the loser's lie. The truth lies somewhere in between, but exactly where we can only guess.
That is a very intriguing story. Forces the listenersbto think critically and start wondering about the different versions of reality everybody has compared to the true reality.
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A fabulous exploration of the impact of the lies we, and society, tells ourself. The most impact was in your final example:
Your plastic bag example illustrates so well what we tell ourselves to assuage our KNOWING that little things make a big difference.
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And it doesn't end their right? We know the nastiness that happens on borders in different parts of the world, we know how we are being screwed up, we know how are neighbor is being wronged...but we agree to live with the lie that makes us feel comfortable. Not realizing how huge the snowball can get.
But how much can we do without just hoping for the better. The earth rotates on hope.
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I loved the challenge and the posts I read were very enlightening. The question you highlighted is one that I think most of us subconsciously think of.
"Is it really okay to live with a lie just to please our own idea of happiness?"
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Good question indeed. It did keep me thinking. I wonder if anyone has an answer that could give us some closure.
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