If you take off those pink glasses that cover your eyes, you see that every one's life is just a huge delusion of convenient truths and elaborate lies. In such a world, you realise truth is hardly an anodyne. On the contrary, it's the sledge hammer of Thor, capable of destroying everything it touches unless wielded with responsibility and caution. Especially to those who are healing their wounds with their magical potions of delusion.
It's not the first time in my life that I've come across crumbling people bandaging themselves in miles of delusions. To state the fact, i myself have been one. A very big one at that. So i am hardly any one to advise anything about the same. What i share, is just a collation of my experiences and the lessons I've learnt from them.
Yes of course, those who still continue to live in their delusions would like to continue thinking happy thoughts, wondering about nice places and creating their own sanctuary in their mind. And deriving totally different perspectives of the same experiences. And they have the right to do so, after all, it's their self preservation - struggling against the truth like white mice trapped in a small gas chamber quickly filling with poison gas. Struggling to take the only vent out - and later realize that it only leads to a chamber with slowly heating boiling oil that'll let them live a while longer while it sears them down to their flesh. And bone.
The catch is, the poison gas is one that our bodies can get accustomed to and learn to adapt to. The poison gas is the truth. The poison gas is oxygen. Too much of it in isolation, is highly combustible. It will burn our lungs apart. The suffocation we feel is our incapability to accept it.
The truth will hurt. The truth will make life uncomfortable. But it is the option i'd prefer to choose as compared to drowning in a pool of drowning delusions.
Over time it seems we learn to take that oxygen in moderation, with all else around. Overtime it seems, we eventually learn that the 'poison gas' is in fact what keeps us alive. What matters is how we take it.
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