9.22.2008

Truth Hurts, Inconvenient Truth, True Lies, Truth Sucks... Truth

Sitting at the desk while at work, I sit in silence. No one is there to disturb me, except for the annoying flies that tend to do kamikaze shots at my body. It appears to be a beautiful day, slightly chilly and only buzzing outside is caused by the small airplanes from the flight school next door.

This is coming to an end. That's the truth, and that's what came to mind. The truth. Those two words are heavy hitting enough without having to get into circumstantial evidence nor testimony. The two other words that stuck out to me, in which I uttered aloud, the "Inconvenient Truth." Yeah, I know it was the title of a movie, but those two words have a heavy implication. Since when has the truth ever been convenient. For one party it may have been somewhat timely, but not convenient; as for the other? well you know it was a disaster of a revelation.

Imply this in a lot of things; a scandal revealed about a person, a cheating wife, finding out you have a fatal disease. I mean you have been lucky to find out, or blessed rather. But that diagnosis was never convenient, shit finding out the disease was there was not convenient at all. Admitting to a spouse that you were attracted to your same sex; finding out years later that your father was never your real dad. I mean the truth is a powerful thing, not always a good thing and definitely not always a convenient aspect to delve in. Truth is...

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