Remember this thrilling pass-time from elementary school playgrounds and sleepless nights spent at your best friend's house? Which did you usually pick, Truth or Dare? I think I once had to wash my hands in the toilet from a "dare". But I secretly craved someone asking me to reveal a "truth", some never-before uttered secret about my ten-year-old thoughts and desires. Which do you think is more courageous: promising to answer some unknown question truthfully, or promising to perform some disgusting or borderline-erotic feat?
Aside from the game, how close can we ever really get to uttering a complete "truth" about ourselves? Does truth require a comprehensive history? Is it entirely subjective? Who's the judge? What is the difference between "fact" and "truth"?
Respond to any of the questions above or to the following passage, an excerpt from my senior I.S. proposal.
"I am fascinated by the power of truth, especially in narratives. I long to hear and read stories that are true. They are somehow more significant to me. I want to know what is real, what is concrete, and to get as close as I can to articulating it. Not only my perception of the truth, but the actual facts. Four US dollars can buy 100 oranges for orphans in Ghana. Today they received no oranges. This weighs on me. I want to write about guilt. The guilt I feel about knowing intimately the suffering in Ghana, and yet doing nothing."
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“To write is thus both to disclose the world and to offer it as a task to the generosity of the reader. It is to have recourse to the consciousness of others in order to make one’s self be recognized as essential to the totality of being.” —Jean Paul Sartre, What is Literature?
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4 comments:
Unfortunately, it was that my close friends one another pick truth even around others because we knew all of each other's dirty secrets. Dares only, that s a fact.
It depends on the situation, but generally, I find the truth much more demanding and harder to reveal.
I think in Truth or Dare, revealing a truth is always more courageous to do. You are revealing a part of yourself that no one else knows. It's exciting and terrifying. Reading truths in a story is exciting because it is someone revealing a truth. I find it hard to put myself out there and when an author does it creates a stronger bond between writer and reader.
The power of truth is riveting. It forces one to put things into perspective. Having the ability to write about these truths sends a release to the body, for sometimes the truth can be too hard to handle. Wrapping our minds around things that are so painfully true is a difficult feat. Writing, though, allows for introspection and further knowledge of the subject, even if it does not solve the problem. Nice excerpt. :)
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