Life Is The Only One That Never Lies!
Life sees and shows us the truth in climate change, pollution, new diseases, wars, our relationships, friendships, love, hate, our jobs, what we eat, wear, say, think, . . . . . . ”
“I am not getting involved,” Beverly protested. “If she can’t see what’s happening in her life with all of her mistakes and pain, there is nothing we can do.”
“I know someone who can help to show her,” Anne informs.
Leila stared at them, then argues, “Everyone and everything has the potential to lie.”
“I have tickets to see Grace Linton,” Anne teased.
Leila sways her head, then gives in, “Ok. I heard she was weird, but good.”
Beverly’s eyes clashed with Anne’s who glared back, then said, “I have three tickets. You are welcome to come too.”
Two days later, Leila, Anne, and Beverly sat at the beginning of the left aisle in the front row seat of the Warren Hall Ballroom Hotel.
Grace Linton appeared on stage wearing low-heeled black pumps. A green hat sat unbalanced on her head, a veil halfway across her face. A mixture of red, soft blue, yellow, and orange pants suit hugged her body, revealing her curves and full bosom.
“Sorry I am late,” She apologized to the audience. “I am coming from a funeral.”
“Dressed like that?” someone asked.
Grace smiled for the first time in a week and shared, “I was at a dinner a week ago with four friends. Jodie, Allison, Tina, and Nadine. We haven’t seen each other in more than twenty years, but we keep track of each other’s lives. Tina’s physical appearance, though disguised through makeup and expensive clothing, wasn’t hidden from the ones who knew her best. I wondered.”
The crowd gasped, easing in.
“What’s going on?” I asked, reaching over to touch her swollen right hand that was the result of a broken shoulder months ago.
She pulled back her hand, then fought “I can see the pity in your eyes. I don’t need it.”
“We care and just want to help,” I encourage.
“I am ok” she lied fighting to keep the pain hidden.
“What, you don’t think we can see what’s going on behind your makeup and brand-named clothing?” I battled with her.
The others agreed.
“Your eyes are deceiving you,” she said in protest.
“So, our ears, understanding, knowledge, and love we have for you are deceiving us too?” I demand.
“You don’t think we are aware of what is going on?” Nadine said.
“All lies,” she said avoiding eye contact.
“I know one person who never lies?” I notified.
“Who, the Pope?” She spoke. “Please,” swaying her head, rolling her eyes at her friends.
“No, life,” I inform her. “Our eyes, ears, smell, tongue, knowledge, and understanding often lies. Mothers, fathers, teachers, doctors, friends, husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, machines, our emotions, thinking, even our brain lies.” She paused, battling with her emotions and the tears, who also didn’t want to lie. “Our enemies often tell us the truth, but they don’t count.”
More than five hundred pairs of eyes stared, absorbing her power of words as the truth punctured hearts, souls, minds, and emotions, mentally, emotionally, and psychologically. While pulling tears down.
“If we feed our bodies unhealthy foods and don’t exercise, it shows on the outside and affects our lives,” she shares.
The audience agrees.
“That’s life speaking the truth. Life never lies,” Grace notifies. “If we eat lots of fatty and salty foods, don’t exercise, we are contributing to hypertension, stroke, and heart attack. Life tells us and shows us in body, actions, and mind.”
“Damn!” Leila cried her eyes on Beverly, who glared back at her.
“Too much smoking and alcohol contributes to various types of cancer. Life shows and tells us that too.”
Someone screamed.
Another person let out a long moan.
“Overweight, obesity, physical inactivity, genes, family history, unhealthy living and life style, are some of the things that contribute to Type 2 diabetes. Life shows us that in many ways.”
Some in the audience were weeping as reality and truth continued to cause injury to many hearts.
“Life never hides the truth from humanity. Look round you,” she suggested. “The truth is in everything we do in life. Life sees and shows us the truth in climate change, pollution, new diseases, wars, our relationships, friendships, love, hate, our jobs, what we eat, wear, say, think, do, . . . . . .” she paused freeing her tears as the death of a life that could have been saved pushed the pain of life’s truth out.
Leila asked, “I am still curious about your attire for a funeral?”
The audience shouts, “uh!”
Anne and Beverly elbowed her from both sides.
“Ouch!” she cried out in pain.
Grace smiles, then shares, “my black shoes represent funeral. My green hat is for life. My red, orange, and yellow pants suit is for the colors of the sunrise and sunset. The blue at the top and bottom is the sea. Water is also life. A sunrise is hope. A sunset is a promise to be back for a better tomorrow.”
Silence and tears fought for control. Balance stepped in and gave each its due.
Then Grace enlightened, wiping tears, “Years of drug and alcohol abuse destroyed a good heart because she was blinded by the truth of life. Many of us are. I beg you. Go home, take a warm or cold shower. Eat or drink something healthy that you enjoy. Then sit back somewhere relaxing and comfortable and search for the truth in your life,” she paused fighting the truth and tears.
Smiling, she went on, “Many of us can see the truth in the lives of others but can’t see our own. If you can’t find it, you aren’t looking with self-love. Self-love will take you to life’s truth. Knowing yourself will also allow you to see and accept the truth life is showing. When you find it, fix your life and yourself. When our lives are going where we want it to go, we contribute more happiness and love to a world plagued with crisis.
Life is the only element or thing that never lies!”
Leila burst into tears, as Anne and Beverly reached out and hugged her. Easing from their embrace a minute later, wiping her eyes with Kleenex someone handed her, she shared, “now I understand!”
This piece is personal. Life is indeed the only element that speaks the truth. It is sad that the truth often depends on which side you are on and how you benefit from it. Not everyone wants or is willing to accept the truth. Life doesn’t care, it sends it out there for you and others to see. Find your life’s truth before it ends or destroys your life.
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