The Truth About 'Living Your Truth'

“Live your truth” - I see this all the time on IG and others and it’s quite possibly one of my biggest pet peeves. It’s cute to put on a bumper sticker and send cards to your friends, but in reality it’s not accurate and is in itself an oxymoron. Let me explain and give a better solution. - When we say live YOUR truth it assumes more than one truth. By definition this is impossible. The law of non-contradiction states that something cannot both be true and false at the same time and assuming something is your truth but not valid for someone else is breaking that law. - Furthermore I believe when we say things like I’m living my truth, it is just enabling us to live a lifestyle that may or may not be in line with what’s best for us, but because we say it’s our truth we justify it. When we “follow our heart” it won’t lead us to freedom, it’ll lead us to slavery. - Why? - Because there’s a lot of things that we desire that aren’t good for us. There’s things that we do, not because we want to but because we are enslaved to it. Things like addictions and certain behaviors. When we attempt to live OUR truth it doesn’t work because we become enslaved to our own decisions. - There’s a lot of distrust of authority out there these days and justifiably so, making it easy to be like nah I’ll just trust myself. The problem is we are all flawed and short sighted so that doesn’t work too long. Instead there has to be a standard. One that is true always and is not subject to opinion. That’s why countries have laws, so there’s no confusion and no people saying well I thought it was right for me, so driving under the influence shouldn’t be a crime. - The question is what’s the standard? I believe it’s the Bible. It’s not just a rule book, it’s a guide to how to live life the best way possible. And you could say well that’s contradictory, wanting to be free but having to live a certain way, but I believe CHOOSING to live that certain way brings freedom from yourself. - Truth is not subjective, just give it a chance. - Be blessed and stay stoked😎🤙 - • • • • • •