Imagine that.One day you decide to write the story of your life: Would you be faithful to the facts, or modify the mistakes you made?

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Permalink Reply by bikram on September 15, 2009 at 6:34pm

i doubt i would be...even if no one will read my story...few things i will lie even to myself..and many times truth is relative ...facts not always make up the whole truth...how facts are placed relative to each other change the truth as we perceive..so people have different stories with same set of facts...as they say each one of us has one's own truth...

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Permalink Reply by Felicitas Heyne on September 15, 2009 at 6:49pm

I can't tell anything about the future, so this might change over the years to come, but so far I think I would be very honest. The reason is simple: looking back I'm sure that the "mistakes" I made were important and necessary steps to where I'm right now. I didn't always realize so, of course, it took quite some time until they revealed their use to me, but sooner or later they all did. For example, if I hadn't made the "mistake" to start a formation as a secretary many years ago (certainly NOT the kind of job I wanted to do for the rest of my life, as I soon found out!), I wouldn't have been able to write my first book last year as quickly as the publisher wanted me to do. The time I had considered as "lost" for a very long period (because I had to spend hours and hours of my life in front of a bloody typewriter trying to manage the touch typing, which was as boring as anyone can imagine!) suddenly turned out to be a very useful and precious investment in a more important goal. And if I hadn't done this formation, I wouldn't have either started a job as a secretary afterwards and therefore never would have met the man I married later on. So the "mistake" to think I could be a secretary when I was very young turned out to be kind of a indispensable precondition to the life I'm leading today (which I'd never trade to another one!) in several respects.

Besides that, I completely agree with bikram: each of one has one's own truth. Absolute truth doesn't exist.

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Permalink Reply by Binx Salamanes on September 16, 2009 at 4:07pm

I think I can never be fully honest if I were to write about my life. there are certain things that I will change, i dunno why. maybe because of insecurities, denials. it also depends on the state of mind. have you read Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye?" the narrator was very unreliable because he keeps on being biased about everything, and this is because he is in a state of confusion and loss.

Like bikram or my Physics teacher said, what we perceive becomes our own truth. it all depends on [inertial] frames of references.

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Permalink Reply by ♥ Sabine ♥ on October 18, 2009 at 3:04am

To bikram, Fely and Binx Salamanes : You people are Absolutely factually correct. We are not perfect, we make errors but we try very hard to minimise them. But what you can always expect from us is total honesty - and also these limitations and possible side effects. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth: I guess that will depend on what your definition of “is” is. My feeling is that once The Whole Truth? I’d like to agree but Certainly not. Since telling the truth means relating facts, do you always state all the facts? this it’s incredibly difficult to get back to where you once were. Thanks for your answer!!!

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