There's no order nor purpose to these ideas, but I think that they're worth sharing.
You can only know the things that you perceive. If you perceive something, you are justified in believing it. Although it may become true for you, it may not be true to someone else.
Others can only know about you what you show them. If you want someone to believe you are kind, be kind to them. If you want someone to believe you are funny, be funny around them.
Truth, like time and space, can only be measured relative to its surroundings or its observers. Though it may be inconsistent to the beliefs of your peers or family, your beliefs are certainly valid and true. Perhaps untrue to someone else, but certainly true to you.
If you lie to someone, the things you say become their truth. In their reality, you have not lied. And, because you have not lied, you have done nothing wrong.
If all human lives are valuable and equally weighted, then too must our unique perceptions be equally weighted. Although you may personally find truth in something, others may not, and their perception must be equally valued to yours.
You have numerous personas that you show the world. A unique character or role you play when in different surroundings. Each collective you encounter experiences a different aspect of you. Your family perceives you differently than your friends who perceive you differently than you coworkers. Yet you yourself are familiar with each of these personas. They are all built upon the foundations established in your life, yet can be radically different when compared to each other.
Humans are innately fearful and selfish. If you have something, it is your primal desire to maintain it. If you are weak, it is your primal desire to hide it.
If something is kept secret, never once shared, can it possibly be true? Your perception declares it true, yet the billions of other observers see nothing and can only declare it false.
By keeping your secrets unspoken, are protecting you protecting yourself or are you protecting others?
If only you know something about yourself, a taboo, habit, or a fetish, when will you tell someone else? If not now, it is already too late.
The transition from the naivety of childhood to the scepticism of adulthood is a great loss and a great victory. Although no longer are you subjected to the whim of anyone's word, you can no longer trust the word of anyone. Perhaps there is a balance that can be reached.
As often as you lie to hide the truth, you tell the truth to hide the lie.
Godspeed.
