How To Tell a True
When people relate an occurrence, or a story regarding their lives, they feel that what they are telling is the truth, their truth, and a presentation of facts as they know it. For something which you see and experience, and know, is indeed a fact to oneself. But is it story-truth or happening-truth, as Tim O'Brien so puts it? When telling a story, do you want to make your listener or audience feel what you feel and see what you saw, make the story burn with the power of your emotions?
People colour their stories, with their emotions. I think there's hardly any human being who can tell a story which has any personal relation to themselves, without altering the "happening-truth" somewhat. Because an occurrence is just that - something that happened. Someone has to tell it for it to be made known to others who know not of it.
The "story-truth", may not be a proper presentation of the facts, but who's to argue that a presentation of emotions is not truth in itself as well.
So who's telling the truth? And the hardest part is - when no one is lying.
Who's right, and who's wrong? It's up to the individual to decide; and inevitably, it all boils down to a matter of perception. The same story can be told by various different people in an assortment of ways, and resulting in a variety of responses and feelings. It's the way the story is told. As was once played out under the gates of Rashomon, what indeed, is the real truth?
It's always nice to know that what you're hearing is the "real" truth though. I guess for me, I'd pick the veracity of both story-truth and happening-truth... a balance struck where both feelings and fact are done justice to.
But who'd ever really know.
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Ah well, I'm just rambling, as usual. Pay no attention to my words if it makes no sense to you. Often what I think, sounds completely logical and feasible in my head, but ends up not making sense in speech or prose.
Gah. So much for being expressive.
:4:58 PM: :sugah~plum
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