The truth is today

"The truth is Today"

What can be said about this quote? I guess it all depends on what angle you are looking at it from. Who says the truth comes from today. What about yesterday or tomorrow. If its yesterday then is it history and not truth. Also who actually gets to determine or decide what the truth really is. Can you handle the truth if it were told to you? Do you prefer to be lied to when it comes to certain situations or do you want the truth. So many questions arise from one tiny quote. I wonder where does the quote come from. Who said it first and what did they think to accomplish by stating it. "The Truth is Today" sounds like it could have been said during a protest or something. Are people really after the truth or is it just socially accepted to say they want the truth. Have you told the truth when you knew a lie is what was really wanted to say. I don't think that I would be able to tell the truth today if I knew that it would hurt someone that I knew. Anyway whats wrong with little fibs and white lies here and there. Who really has never told a lie in their lifetime? Too many Questions!

---Barije

The Truth is Today

The truth is everyday. Each day we live through the day we rot into the ground truth rings from our bellies. Often the truth gets lost. Often, for whatever reason, it becomes distorted, perverted, hidden. We may close our souls eyes to the truth, perhaps we are afraid. Fear has a way of seeping into our pours and leaving its stench on our skin. It drowns out the truth and leaves us lost in our own illusions.
We can run from the truth, but each day we breathe, each day we open our eyes to a new sun the truth reappears. The truth wont let you rest not even after your death. The truth won’t die with you. The truth may be forgotten or ignored, but it still exists within our hearts, within nature. The worms that will eat our flesh sing truths the dirt that will cover our bodies sing truths; the flames that will consume our flesh sing truths and each day its starts anew. Each day beyond the passing of the earth, ingrained in the heavens as an unchangeable force the truth resonates. Beyond our conventions, our perceptions, and all that we hold dear. The truth does not play favorites. It is not merciful. It is not benevolent. Is the truth with in our means to grasp? Is the truth, which is beyond both man and God, able to be defined, explained, communicated or measured?

Today I was hurt. What is the truth? Today I was disregarded. Is the truth fact?
Today I found salvation, for each day I don’t swallow the bottle, each day I don’t pull the trigger salvation is won.

The truth is every day. The truth is today.

"You can never go home again-ever."

"You can never go home again-ever," I think what this quote is trying to say is that you can't go back to what you originally called home because its an environment that will constantly change, not only physically but mentally as well. As a baby, home is in your mother’s arms, as a kid, home is where you play, as a teen, home is where your friends are, and as an adult, home is where your family is. However, I do think you can go back home, not forever, but just for a visit. For example, you can always look back at your childhood toys to relive the feeling, or you could have a night out with your friends, but “home” is a factor in everyones life that seems to constantly be changing because it is where you feel the most comfortable. At home you do everything without thinking twice, you comfortably grab your toys, or vent out to your friends. “Home,” in this quote, is not a physical place, but the feeling of it. Many people find it in different places, whether it is a house, a job, a community, or anywhere else. Home is not where you eat and sleep, its where you can let yourself be you.

Protect Against The Inevitable

Why on earth would anybody waste their time doing something as stupid as this? I mean, seriously, if it is inevitable JUST by definition alone you have no hope. It will happen. You can't do anything. Don't try. But then there are those crazy people out there who want to control everything who will do this just to control it. Not that I'm not one of these people-- I totally need to control everything-- but I have more common sense than to try this. Wrinkles, for instance, cannot be prevented (unless, of course, you want a long needle injected into your face and a painful and bruise-full recovery) so why waste your time worrying-- or not laughing (I actually know someone who did this). You really are going to get them no matter what. (Wow...I must be tired if I'm writing words that are completely illegible and backwards for that matter. Yes. I just spelled the word "to" by putting the "o" before the "t." And I JUST did the same thing with the "p" in "putting"). Now that my long parenthetical phrase is done, I can get back to this ridiculous quote-type-thing. Gray hair is also inevitable. And I am a culprit of this one. Yes, at 17 I have already covered up my graying hair. Now, I do have more to worry about seeing as my mom grayed at 25, but still! Why would I waste my time and money on something so inevitable? What else inevitable? Um...getting hit by a cab in New York, yet we ALL jay-walk; procrastinating on homework, yet every college student says they won't continue on their "old high school" streak.

Riana Johnson

9/13/10 Writing 1

Opening writing assignment