Get Firm

Last night, as I was watching a video in my class, I was thinking about how each person, myself included, qualifies and measures the truth. As I thought about it, I realized that it's pretty bad to actually measure truth when it either IS or it ISN'T.

I mean, let's be real: Can we really say that someone is telling or giving you MORE or LESS truth than someone else? If so, then truth sounds like it's a thermometer (goes up and down with the temperature) rather than a thermostat (sets the temperature).  When I thought about that, that scared me.

We rely on truth to be the benchmark for what we base all of our knowledge, understanding, emotions, wisdom - you name it, we do it.  Truth is THE FINAL destination, not the process or journey to the destination.  It's unmovable, unshakable, and provides the stability that causes theories to become laws.

It is a truth that if you jump off a building, gravity will pull you down. Imagine if there was a more or less truth to that? Wow, people and things would either be as light as balloons or heavy as rocks.

Truth is where you ultimately want to end up. When we get to that destination, you'll see that the journey was well worth it.

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