I have met many people throughout my life, some who think they have mastered truth, and some who have stopped looking for it. But truth is something to be sought for, it cannot be mastered and it must always be sought after. The truth is too big to understand completely, but it’s also too big to ignore altogether.
Who says that what we seek is truth though. Perhaps this is why many loose hope that there is truth in what they find, what else are they to think when disappointment meets them at the end of each journey. Just the other day I read four different newspaper articles from two different papers, the Washington Post and USA today, about the tension between the Obama administration and the Republican party due to feuding over the coveted airing date of both Obama's speech and the Republican debate. Both were scheduled for the same date and time and neither party was will to budge for the other.
However, it took me reading four different articles about the same topic to finally found out what was going on. One article said nothing about the Republican debate and focused entirely on Obama's jilted pride and frustrations, another article spoke about how ridiculous and underhanded the republicans were being toward their President and still another conveyed both sides of the plight but leaned further toward agreeing with the republicans than with Obama. By the time I was done reading I was more frustrated with the lack of truth in the articles than the article topic itself.
We receive enough lies and propaganda from the government and political parties; we certainly do not need to hear it from the news as well. Emily Dickenson hit the nail on the head when she said, "Truth is such a rare thing, it is a delighted to tell it." But let’s change this a little and delight in the truth because it is the truth, not simply because it is rare. Let’s be frivolous with truth and make deceit something that is rare.
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