"Ice has covered up my parents hands

dont have any dreams, dont have any plans

growin up in some strange storm

nobody's cold, nobody's warm"

NEIGHBORHOOD#3. ARCADE FIRE

SHOUT OUT TO THE SUN !

Last night my dad taught me how to ride a road bicycle, since im a horrible bike rider and ive never riden one like the very old, road one he has. I'm still to scared to lift my hands off the handles enough to change gears. I felt like a child again, and screamed into the suffocating, foggy mist as I wobbled and careened into the road. I felt like a kid who couldnt color within the lines. The minute Dad settled onto the bike he was transformed; I saw him as a young, city boy again smiling into the wind and fighting me for turns on the bike. Old age often seems an omnipotent indomitable thing, but i realized it only takes precedence when you acknowledge it. I dont believe Dad had any idea that he was an adult when he set his hands on those handles. And if you believe, and feel something, so utterly and strongly- what makes it false?

The quote on my bag of tea this morning read "Recognize that you are the truth".

I am having trouble swallowing this. For one, Im not sure how strongly I believe in the truth. I cant comprehend how there is only one truth. Especially since we extract different things from every statement; if I tell the truth it will mean a thousand different things to a thousand different people. If I want to get one true meaning across to a thousand different people, Id have to express it a thousand different ways. Would these variations be lies?

And dont we all live how we believe is the truth? I'm not sure anyone I know is living deliberately false. Dont we all strive, or at least automatically follow, what we believe is right? Then I feel like that would make all of us the truth. Maybe the tea bag should have read "Recognize that you are a truth"

Maybe I'm being selfish and this quote's demand wasnt even for me. Quite possibly it wants me to impart this message on others; maybe my job in life is to make others realize the truth in themselves. To empower them- I'd like to empower people. Maybe the quote is about taking a lesson from something, digesting it, and spreading it out to other people instead of holding onto it, like a secret, for our own.

Recognize that you are the truth.

Now, I am demanding :) But if you spread something false (negative), but it gives hope (positive) to others, does this make it a postive or a negative thing?

Math would tell me that a positive x a negative is always a negative. Dumb, pessimistic math; you've already acknowledged that you are the truth.

I used correct punctuation and capitalization in this blog for the first time, and I'm not sure why