This Is My Truth
Three years ago, I wrote a blog listing the many things that I was grateful for. It was an exercise in self-awareness that was good for my mind, heart, and blood-pressure. The other day I had a bit of an epiphany, and decided to do something similar, but using a different track. There seem to be fewer truths in our world. This AI, fake news, social media driven universe we inhabit has created more questions than answers. So many “facts” that I filled my personal reality bubble with made me a happy, comfortable, and apparently naive person. Slowly this reality came crashing down like a shower of meteor strikes, breaking my secure force field and leaving an apocalyptic burning landscape across the horizon as far as the eye can see. Hyperbolic? One-hundred percent, much like many present day headlines. But…I did firmly believe that Bill Cosby was a great man I should model myself after, Lance Armstrong was a legitimate, legendary champion, and...