"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
~Ernest Hemingway

Truth most often means ‘in accord with fact or reality’. Unfortunately, both the criterion of truth and reality are subjective, and a claim of truth is not dependent upon facts. Examples of this are family myths or emotional truths, and politics and religion or ideological truths.

What constitutes truth? What can truly be true or false? How can we define and identify truth, and is truth subjective or objective, relative or absolute?

Thinking about my family makes me ask these questions. Within my family, myths and facts are so deeply intertwined that they are impossible to separate. Because they are emotional truths, the facts are disregarded.

If you wonder what I mean, take this political race as an example. The accusations the opposing parties hurl at each other have little to do with facts or truth. They are based upon emotional and ideological truths. People believe what they believe not because it is based upon facts, but because it suits their emotional and ideological internal landscape. I suppose that means truth is what suits us, an undesirable conclusion.