Tell the truth and be yourself, here’s why.

Constantly speaking the truth to yourself and to others will spare you an unfathomable amount of unnecessary unwanted instances. Stay attentive, for its tiny details that enrich life the most.

I’ve been inspired by a film line in the series Chernobyl to write this article. After all, isn’t this one of the main purposes of movies and series? To inspire us through their main plots and subliminal messages? Anyway, that’s what the Soviet chemist Valery Legasov said during the trial: “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, the debt is paid.” And as soon as I heard that, I was nothing but intrigued by how realistic and maybe rather existentialist that fact is. “They’ve surely gone through a lot of frustration and traumatic events for him to express such an openly-declared statement during the Soviet regime I immediately thought.” I couldn’t stop myself from relating those lines with lectures that I listened to, experiences that I’ve been through, and the struggles that many people have endured because of lies. So many lies, that it may almost seem pathological. However, those lies aren’t limited to the ones expressed to people, but they include ones that are told to oneself and may at times tag team with the denial of reality and the present.

When critically thinking of the aforementioned, I’ve considered the following as flame sources:

• Avoiding or denying facts and the reality, or even rejecting them
• Trying to use band-aids as a dam facing torrential rains
• Dismissing priorities and incubating peripherals

In digging even further, each persons’ life is very similar to a movie, and you’d definitely want to be the hero of that movie, not an assistant actor.

But when you really think of it, even heroes in movies are introduced with personal challenges and misfits, or sudden shocking plot twists. And this is where the granular details are of significance, aspiring to be a hero without the challenges is just as much as wanting to enjoy the rain without the mud. No one is really worthy of being a hero unless he had well-tolerated burdensome responsibilities, possesses heroic traits combined with discipline, or for sacrifices he had offered for the greater good of the society or no-less-than his circle. Coming to think of it, if it weren’t for such instances, movie heroes would be most definitely dreary enough to lose a child’s interest.

So, here’s what you’re supposed to grasp out of this:

• Being continuously attentive to what’s going around you is crucial. Not just that, it aids you in avoiding events that may stir your life to unwanted directions, some that you may be unable to recover from.
• Reincarnating other peoples’ roles or personalities to merely blend in is a luxurious commodity that you cannot afford.
• Always say the truth and always be yourself, everywhere. Losing people and winning yourself is the ultimate win, while losing yourself to earn others’ approval is nothing but an endless mirage.