5 Truths Nobody Has Ever Told You That Will Change How You See Everything

To question is fundamentally essential to gain true understanding.

Do you actively question your belief? I know I do every day. With each experience, information or data I receive my belief transforms. And thus I’m able to flex it as well to my advantage. But most of us are not that fortunate when it comes to altering our belief.

And in some parts of the world, it is still considered a constraint to challenge it. Either it’s peer pressure by society or the people that follow a specific belief community. They enforce their desired rules on the masses. And this belief is transformed through a closed-minded approach.

Which is the wrong way to go about life, and I meant it when I say if you don’t question it? How can you truly understand what you believe? How can it become a part of your conscious mind? How will you be able to go about your life when you have such a closed set of options laid out for you?

Ones that I believe every person has the responsibility to poke, hack, and research before they ever truly believe that something is tangible or intangible for that matter.

True belief rides on the questions that develop an understanding. And truths allow you to expand your learning to new horizons. Here are 5 truths I believe can change your mindset of how you view everything around you.

1. The laughter is fake or scripted in any form of media, you see.

Ever saw a TED video or that talk show where the audience laughs at the most mundane of things. But how wouldn’t you? You laughed along as well.

It’s a psychological trick to entice the viewer into feeling that the rhetoric is funny or entertaining. Every form of media uses it. It’s the best way to interact with an audience through a screen.

Most producers know this. And extras in the audience are selected often because they can be presented. Have you ever seen how the camera shifts to the audience in America’s Got Talent? or any other similar show for that matter?

Yeah, that is pre-programmed, to make you believe that the act is shocking the audience. Those people are chosen beforehand by the authority to select faces that will be shown to the audience to achieve a significant impact.

This process is used everywhere in almost all parts of the world. And the masses believe it like its the ten commandments.

In reality, there are ten commandments to hook the audience. And This is one of them. Now you know?

And you thought WWE was fake. Guess Again!

2. You live in a bubble.

I kindly apologize for popping it.

You see I had to say it plainly, or else you might not have just thought disgust just now. But the reality of the matter is we all are. And at some point in our lives, we will be conditioned to systemic racism because of it.

Whether it's our faith, identity, colour, education, moral values and vice-versa. Society treats us differently accordingly to all such metrics. And our bubble is defined that way.

Sometimes, we never truly realize it. And mostly we don’t even mind it. How could we? We never even knew it until now as we read these words and think?

Hmnn? Is this person bonkers? or is he saying the truth?

You don’t have to take my word for it just like the American Dream; you have to be asleep to believe it. — George Carlin

3. Your education decides your future.

The fact of the matter is if you’re reading — you have received at least some form of education somewhere. If you understand it completely, then you have received a great education.

And honestly, that is an achievement in itself. Most people from third world countries desire what you have. They’d even do shady stuff(kill) to get where you’re at. It’s true. Life isn’t all black or white. It’s brown, red and a little bit of orange as well.

In short, it's colourful. But that doesn’t mean the problems aren’t. In reality, most people in the world don’t receive a good education. And in most third-world countries the quality of life is really poor when it comes to those who don’t have access to a good education.

Good education = Good Opportunites and vice-versa.

It’s funny at times, how people who have access to free education would miss an opportunity to study free for life. I mean the only reason one can deduce is that they are ungrateful for what they have.

And they don’t know how valuable their life really is. And how much things they could accomplish if they’d dedicate their lives for the greater good. Chances and opportunities for a good education are scarce. It can make or break life in third world countries.

Every person regardless of stature pushes themselves to become better. But what every person craves is the accomplishment that comes having a great education. Because it defines and creates a diverse set of options for them to be able to live a good life.

And some might even be able to live a great one. Education drives ambition, and a system that provides free education drives direction towards greatness.

Do not waste your time when you've been given these precious gifts.

Believe in the opportunities that lie, in these options. They will make your present and future a sustainable place to live in.

4. Don’t be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.

Manners maketh a man. And everybody loves talking to a gentleman. Why?

Because respect drives admiration.

We all have a right to be kind towards one another regardless of what the other owes. You need to show common courtesy to other people.

It’s not about being right? It’s about making the right decision to avoid irrelevant confrontations that are not in your best interest. Always be mindful of the person you are talking to.

Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

Eliminating the ego, helps you to attain a significant level of status in itself. A point where people can see eye to eye without thinking about you as a douche.

The way you do that is to respect their rights just as you would want them to respect yours. Courtesy helps administer this fact by showing compassion.

People will listen to you when you aim to perceive, not, please.

5. Don’t confuse mere inconveniences with real problems.

Ever saw that one guest, that just fucking complains at everything. Like that small spill ruining his 50,000 dollar suit. Or how the waiter wasn’t able to talk to him while looking down on the ground while taking his order. I mean what an inconvenience right?

How dare he look into your eyes and try to steal you with his charms? Now it’s a problem and you’ll complain to the manager about how this newcomer waiter just ruined your evening.

You get where I’m coming from right? You know chances are there are kids, who might be witnessing the fancy cafe from afar watching people come by as you sip that fancy wine. You know how poor kids enjoy fancy meals. They imagine it by watching it from afar.

Your life is hard, right? According to who? You?

Chances are if you’re reading this, I can honestly tell you that it isn’t. It can have its hard and challenging moments. And I commend you for experiencing them. They made you who you are.

But don’t confuse mere inconveniences in your life as real problems.

There is a high chance, the average reader might have never slept on the sidewalk.

Or grew up poor.

Or never knew how to read, write, or speak.

Or slept hungrily.

Or had a lack of education, quality water, amenities, medicine and vice-versa.

Because the average person reading this might have enjoyed all of what an average life has to offer — but it still is better than nothing. What you need to ask yourself is.

Are you grateful?

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Rollo May, the distinguished psychiatrist wrote a wonderful book called “Man’s search for himself.” In this book, he said, “the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”

And there you have the trouble with today. It’s conformity. People acting like everyone else without knowing why; without knowing where they are going. — Earl Nightingale

If you can count the things you haven’t been given and compare it with the things you have been given? Chances are you’ll fall short on that promise.

Don’t calculate your success by the amount of wealth you’ve acquired. Although you can and there is nothing wrong with that.

But calculate your success by the amount of health, peace, and happiness you enjoy in your life.

And compare that with those with nothing. And that is a real problem because then you’ll know how much you really have.

And how badly you waste what you have?

And how sadly you have pushed yourself to believe that you don’t have enough?

If you’re reading this, I want you to know that you have enough. You just have to use it the right way. If you do not know how I’d say learn to fail well. It’s easy and its the best system for measuring your success.

You can share what you learn along the way with people who don’t have enough. You can give back, and allow them to come up to their desired level of happiness.

There is something that you can contribute towards, and that is serving humanity. If you help people and solve one real problem. Just one, it will outweigh everything you initially compared when you envied.

Do you know you would have accomplished something great?

You would have saved two lives in the process.

Yours and the person having that problem.

Always give back. Remember that just the moment you say, “I give up,” someone else seeing the same situation is saying, “My, what a great opportunity.”

Be selfless and be real. And never forget where you came from.

Peace.