Before I proceed, let me define first what’s truth is. The Encarta Dictionary of terms defines truth as the quality, condition, or characteristic of being fair, truthful, and morally upright and synonymous with the words, candor and sincerity
I wrote this simple essay of mine because of a certain person whom I met in text by a friend who gave his number. At first, I was so very reluctant to text him and immediately, he replied my text. And then our friendship starts. He said to me that he is also a Business Administration student from the school I was enrolled with. And he even tells me that he is a homosexual person and I said its okay with me. But later on, he tells the truth that he is not a gay. So we texted each other and befriend. He said also that he is a bullied, he is poor, and he belongs to a conservative and strict religion and so on. I even tell to him if he knows a certain person from the school where he came from and he delightedly said that he knows that person. So I feel very comfortable with him and even told to him that we had a lot of things in common and this friendship will last long.
Within the week, I was so eager to meet him because his course was first offered in the university. And there were a lot of questions that I want to answer by him in regards to his course. And I also want him to see my sketches and also to personally meet him and talk with him in person. Tuesday and Wednesday, we still had connection with each other thru text. But in Thursday and Friday, it was stopped. I did not bother to ask him for that because during those days, the university is busy for the midterm examination so I concluded that he too is busy reviewing his notes.
Until comes Saturday. Exactly one week since we had befriends when he texted me. He asks me if I’m okay and I said yes. From then, we continued to txt again. Our topics are all in the school and other related topics. He even tried to tell me that if he would given the chance to search my name and my picture, he would look for me and when he found me, he will immediately punch me just like what he ad usually do in the school where he came from. Because he said allot of time to me that he is a bully in their university. It was quite pass 10:00 in the evening when he tried to open up things to me and told me the truth of his identity.
He told me that the facts that he said to me are all false. He said that he is a graduate of Business Administration from the private university in our province and he is now currently enrolled in the same university for his non-thesis masteral program. He also told me that he is a Philippine Science High School graduate and a summa cum laude graduate in college. And he had said that all the information about himself that he said is all false.
You may tell to me and ask me why did I wrote this thing and what’s wrong with that? Well, for me, this is not a funny thing. For me, honesty matters. Why, because even from the start that I had texted him, I had always telling the truth about who I am and who I’m not. And here is he, making you believe that all the info’s that he gave to you are all real. He is lying from the very start.
I was reminded by e very simple yet a very valuable quotation that I read about honesty some where in the magazine, which goes this way, “ALWAS TELL THE TRUTH, AND YOU WON’T BE SORRY OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAD SAID LAST”. Tell the truth, and the truth will find its way to find you. I always asked also this question to my self, “Why does other people are hard up in telling the truth?” “What’s wrong with truth; will these causes their life if they will tell the truth?” Certainly, I don’t think so.
With what he had made to him, I don’t know tomorrow if I would text him the way we texted each other, because there’s now the burden in your heart that what if he is not telling the truth again and making me believed again of his false information. I’m afraid what would come next that he will tell to me. And until when he will tell more lies to me? And in what point will I be able to decipher which is the real ones.
Sometimes, it’s not always the face validity of a person that person that we should look at to but also in the content validity. If he is honest or not; if he is good or not; and most specially, if he could be better that you are.
Most of the times, it’s not the nature that greatly contributes our life; but the nurture. The upbringing of the child also matters
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