Doctoring Emotional Truth

Without communication, humanity doesn’t exist, certainly not in any form we recognize.

And the key to communication is truth. Not actual truth, but the more important emotional truth. Facts are fine, but to truly communicate with someone, you have to understand how they view the world.

Sometimes that’s easy, if it’s just a matter of liking or disliking a movie.

Sometimes it can be difficult, if the topic is about abortion or vaccines or such.

And then you sometimes have to spend years to get someone to understand that maybe blowing up a hospital was a bad thing to do…