Truth...?

‘Speak the truth even if your voice shakes…’ 

is an idealistic virtue; 

when your sheer existence shakes 

as the practical consequence of speaking the truth, 

doesn’t it become a vice…?

"What's the world's greatest lie?" 

the boy asked, completely surprised.

"It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, 

we lose control of what's happening to us, 

and our lives become controlled by fate. 

That's the world's greatest lie..."

- The Alchemist