A lie believed as the truth has the same effect as the truth itself.   The things one learns as a child, the things one knows, the information one acquires through the experiences of life all work to lay a foundation of beliefs.  It is on these beliefs that one builds.  He or she will build their life, education, future based on what the things believed to be the truth.  Present and future decisions are based on information believed to be true.  What happens if information provided, learned and/or acquired isn’t all true?  What if for years the things that one holds to be firm to be the truth aren’t true?   In any relationship there will or should be growth, so the way a relationship begins isn’t always or hopefully it isn’t always the way it should end.

Exposure opens the doors to possibilities, new truths.   As people our truths are always bias to a degree because they are based on the information that is within one’s reach.  Most people, if they are honest have developed values, ideas, concepts based on a small perimeter to which he or she is exposed.  That perimeter is controlled to some degree by parents and other adults who secure and protect one’s future.  It’s not until as one grows that a person is able to control exposure to some degree and  at that point many people are conformed and satisfied with his or her limited views.  Changing views isn’t bad and it isn’t all good but it is in fact growth.

A number of people been fed details, even lies that once he or she grew made conscience decisions to change his or her beliefs.  What do you do when you learn you were wrong?  What happens when the small world to which you have been accustomed changes and things aren’t what they appeared to be?   For some people the reality that the his or her beliefs aren’t the law can be devastating or worse yet that person who realizes his or her beliefs aren’t working but rather than open his or her mind to better or new concepts would rather die in their belief.  As a person who hasn’t always found change to be easy until I realized that change is the only constant, I have and I am learning that exposure isn’t always a bad thing.  It’s actually okay if my ideas aren’t the law or if my views are challenged and altered.  In fact over the last few months, I have learned that what I viewed to be adversity was really growth, change and maturity.  I am so glad that my views were challenged and that I was able to grow and gain.  I am the better person for it.

If a person’s beliefs cannot be challenged there is a problem.  Challenging beliefs only makes them stronger when the beliefs are founded in real principles; like sowing and reaping etc…  If your beliefs are as bland and unchallenged as they were when you were a child, check your perimeter, it’s likely that you are about to die in a small place rather than live in this BIG WORLD.