“The truth doesn’t need defending if it’s the truth; once you start asking questions the floodgates open,” Ross Lara.  Humans are curious creatures by nature.  It comes with the inherent creativity we were gifted and our ability to learn, adapt, understand, and modify the environment around us.  We have to be curious in order to see the possibilities and to learn.  This quote was a continuation of the discussion of awakening in the context of finding the answers to things we always questioned and a reminder to keep questioning.  We have brains capable of understanding all of human history and context, we were driven to record our history, our stories, to leave a mark and it is right to question everything we know because it is all based on what was told before us.  A majority was not through first hand experience—it was simply what we were told and accepted as true.  It wasn’t until we started to care about how we looked and started seeking power that we manipulated the truth.  I mean, with that being said, we started lying as soon as we realized we could hunt because the guy with the biggest kill had the most power.  But then it turned into a game of manipulation to make people behave a certain way so they would fulfill specific interests.  So when we understood that and started asking questions, that was an entirely different game.

Facts needed to line up and when things didn’t make sense, we started to ask about the cracks.  Some people didn’t like that because they didn’t like being questioned or exposed.  Then there were those who simply stuck with the truth because they knew it was the truth.  There are truths we form based on our experience and we can have a different story for the exact same thing, but when we look objectively, we understand that we don’t need to defend ourselves when we are in truth.  The story tells itself.  So if we see someone or feel someone trying to adjust a story that we know didn’t go down a certain way, it feels wrong.  If we feel like something someone shares with us doesn’t make sense, we feel it.  If we see something portrayed as truth that only benefits a few and hurts someone else, we know it’s wrong.  So we get curious and start digging because we know there is more to it.  That is one of the greatest gifts of being human: we have this knowing when there is more to the story. We have this little radar that senses crap. So what really matters is that we can tell whatever story we want to but the truth will always come out.  We don’t need to back it up or posture for it—it speaks for itself. 

It’s when we experience those moments of finding a truth that we start to see there could be cracks in everything we know.  If we could go our entire lives believing and behaving based on one type of system only to find out there was an entirely different series of rules for others, then what else is there?  An infinite amount of possibility.  And we know that humans have a tendency to fight for being right rather than doing what is right.  Before anyone gets too upset at that, I’m NOT saying that is the norm—I know there are people who genuinely care and are honest and consistently act in the best interest of others simply for the fact it is the right thing to do.  But there are people who care more about being right than doing what is right, that is a fact we can’t escape.  So this is where the distinction is and the lesson in this piece: remember that we know the difference between right and wrong, that is something we were all born with.  If something feels off, allow that curiosity to guide is in the direction of what feels right and we will find the answer.  The truth can never stay buried for long because it has its own light about it.  It doesn’t need the glory of any sort of attention: it is exactly as it needs to be.  So trust our instincts and keep searching for what feels right.