What is truth? Clearly it is different things to different people. You would think that truth would be a pretty universal concept, but I have found that, that is not the case. Some people have the uncanny ability to talk themselves into a lie becoming a truth. Hypothetically situation: You are chatting with a friend, you haven't known this friend for very long, but you feel things are progressing and you feel there is a possibility of things going in a positive, new direction. (Now here is where, one might be talking yourself into a truth, that is a lie). In the midst of the conversation, you say something like "God oranges are the best fruit." Well your friend disagrees emphatically, they like apples better. You say "okay, that is your opinion, I respect that." A day goes by, and the friend that you had been talking to regularly, suddenly has more important things going on, and suddenly doesn't have the time to even drop you a "hi" anymore. You start to wonder, what the hell is going on, did I say something? Do something? You can't figure out what you did that was so awful that your friend would abandon you. So you ask and they respond with a truth born out of a lie, "I have been doing this and that, life has been crazy, I am stressed, etc..." All these may be true, but none are the real reason (or truth) for a lack in interest in maintaining contact. Who knows what the real truth is, perhaps the friend decided they didn't like something about you, that was too great to overcome in their mind, or they just got bored with you, or just maybe, they found someone, they thought was a better catch. Whatever the case maybe, their new truth became, apples are the only fruit I can tolerate, and if you like oranges better, we have nothing more to talk about. If the friendship was true, then apples and oranges shouldn't matter. If you find someone else, or just can't get over a difference in opinion, and that is the real truth, just stick with the real truth, don't try to talk yourself into some false truth. It will only eat you up from the inside out, and hurt the other person, because the real truth will always seep out eventually.
...Or I could be just talking out my ass...
