Growing up, I realized that in life, one spends most of his/her life in truth-seeking. In every pursuit that an individual takes, behind is a motivation that whatever knowledge one attains, this knowledge is for the sake of knowing the 'big picture' of life and reality. I subsist to this fact, and have been involving myself with meaningful truth-seeking ever since I made this realization.
One of the manifestations of my truth-seeking objective in life is engaging in formal education. Undergoing formal educational training equipped me intellectually, enabling me to know that there exists different 'versions' of the truth, wherein each version demonstrates a part or a facet of the "right truth" I am seeking and trying to discover. Because of truth-seeking, I used to have the notion that reality and knowledge can be easily distinguished as right or wrong -- whether the knowledge I receive is what I consider the "right truth."
Warren Buffet's quote about "right truth" struck me because it gained me insight into how I should I achieve my journey to self- and truth-discovery. Buffet stated, "You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts and your reasoning is right -- that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning is right, you don't have to worry about anybody else." This quote "freed" me, in the sense that I no longer felt bound to the fact that in order to seek truth, one must seek for the "right kind" of truth. Apart from this fault, I learned to trust not just my knowledge but my perceptions as well -- that is, I learned to trust myself based on what I know and what I am, accepting the fact that sometimes, truth-seeking is not just about getting the "right truth," but more about standing firm on one's beliefs and principles.
A achieved freedom from Buffet's insightful remark about "right truth." I realized that I have limited my knowledge and ability to explore and discover because I have set myself to look only for the "right truth." Without me knowing it, the truth that I have been seeking is not so much about another person's viewpoint, but my own, personal philosophy -- my statement of truth as I have experienced and lived it. It is through the Buffet quote that I began to acknowledge that I can be both recipient and producer of knowledge, exploring knowledge about life while at the same time, sharing it with others through my own interpretation, my "version" of the 'right truth.'
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