"Most of the time in our world, the truth is just an opinion"

Taken from Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. (Author of The English Patient)

This goes along well with an excerpt I read in one of those spy-detective-action Tom Clancy books where a guy (I believe it was a Catalonian or Bastian) who said the only reason the people who claim they are in the right is because they have the majority to back them up. However if the minority took hold and became the majority, that would be the new right. Well, something along those lines...I can't look it up because I read it while in Japan and that has been stuck in my mind since, and pops up from time to time. Though I'm sure that novel was well written before 9/11, it very well echoes the sentiments of terrorists who believe themselves to be freedom fighters.

And if you think about it, it is true. As well as the fact the "truth" is what we choose to believe, and those we choose to believe can be formed through an opinion. And sometimes we twist the "truth" around to deceive ourselves into the morally right way of thinking.

If we start philosophizing about this, might as well reread Sophie's World.

As time is racing faster and faster into the future for me, I realize how I have yet to stop for the friends around me, to say my final goodbyes to those who will soon graduate. I suspected a few of them when they say "Let's Hang Out" and I knew, that would never happen due to our time constraints and different group of friends that we have made since we last hung out. It was one of those- we weren't good enough friends nor do I want to be better friends and play the fake catch-up night out and waste my time. It is a bit of a pity for people to think that way, but it can definitely be read on people's minds when they say "we definitely need to hang out." I can honestly say in my cases that if you want to hang out with me, I will put your name and date on my agenda book and show up that day. If not, at least I have the decency to tell you before hand.

Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Most of the time, they really don't mean it and its quite obvious when they don't but they still try- not to accuse my friends of being shallow or fake, but sometimes it's one of those phrases "I'll call you" but it never happens. Then just don't say it, ya know?

I mean, sometimes I feel life around me there's just so many bullshitters. Perhaps that's what you need to do to join the rat race.