What is Truth?

I am always surprised at what some people appear to call truth. It almost seems like most people haven't really questioned anything at all in their lives and therefore may be living secretly in some ways 100 or more years ago in the way they are presently seeing things. And if you should question what they are saying some get quite hysterical about the whole thing. So, most of the time it is better to "let sleeping dogs lie" unless someone's life is at stake or something.

Let me give you an example in my own life. I was thinking that my senses including sight, brain, hearing and everything else was getting worse this winter. But after going to London and England and Edinburgh and Scotland, my wife and daugthers said, "You have to get hearing aids because we are tired of repeating ourselves all the time." And I said, "OH. I don't need those things." And then all three of them got pretty mad at me at once and I decided there might be something to what they are saying to me. But then, when I went to the appointment the man there stuffed to Lyric's in my ear canals. My older daughter watched him do it. I found myself to be having a really extreme sort of paranoid reaction to this. But I couldn't show my older daughter that I was afraid in a really intense way in someone stuffing semi-permanent electrical devices that Only allowed me to hear electronically manipulated sounds and nothing else. I lasted about 12 hours before my ear canals started itching and I pulled them out. But then I got an idea about sticking one back in for my right ear. When I did this I realized just how much music I was missing hearing in the higher ranges because the upper 20% in range where women's voices and consonents were was the only place my hearing loss was. So, with one Lyric in my right ear and listening to the full stereo sound system in my new 4 wheel drive truck I began to cry because I have been a musician since I was 8 years old playing the piano. And when I heard all the higher sounds clearly that I hadn't heard in years I began to cry at the beauty of all I was missing in the music I have been hearing the last 20 years or so. So, at this point I had a good reason to get some kind of hearing aid that worked for me long term. The next ones the hearing specialist gave me to try were Starkeys like my father in law used before he passed away. I found I liked them better because I could put them in and take them out any time I wished and I still could hear the upper ranges good as well as natural sounds around the outside of the inputs into my ears. So, I was getting the best of both worlds sound wise. However, the electronic sound can be kind of irratating especially if my wife is on my case about something.

BUT, if my wife and daughters hadn't confronted me I would have withdrawn more and more possibly until my brain couldn't understand many sounds anymore and that would not have been good for me or for my family. This is just one of thousands of things in people's lives where they need to be confronted because you love them enough to actually care.