Day 9: TRUTH AND FICTION?

The theme of “Truth and Fiction” arises throughout daily life in many ways. Whether in the media that you are exposed to everyday, or in the interpersonal communication that you experience daily, you are forced, perhaps subconsciously, to sift through information and determine what to pay attention to, and what to ignore. However, the way that I believe truths and fictions most prominently play into daily life is in the ways that they effect ones own personal interpretations of things. We all have schemas engrained in our psyches that we accept as truths, as well as ways that we twist truths in order to fit our personal perceptions, or “fictions”, that we create for self-comfort. These truths and fictions affect how we receive information from outside sources, as well as our views on politics, and more commonly, how we receive, or rather, perceive, daily interaction and experience.