Which truth is the real truth?

Many years ago I had this rather strange experience:

My mother told me about something she had experienced. Then two days later my brother told me about a completely different situation, which he had experienced. And then the next day I realized that they wore both referring to exactly the same situation!!!

I was very much confused as the two stories were so different.

However, I knew that my mother would never ever lie, whereas my brother would often add a bit here and delete a bit there! So after a while I decided that my mother was the one telling the true story exactly the way it had really unfolded!

Guess what? - I don’t believe that anymore!!!

Today I believe that we never see and experience things exactly the same way as others do!

I believe that we are all different, unique individuals. And I believe that we all see life through each our own "filter" consisting of everything we've been taught, everything we've experienced, the meaning we've been giving to everything, the stories we are telling ourselves, our temper, our genes, our feelings and a lot of other stuff!

Each person’s filter is different from other peoples’ filters, so when we experience the “same” situation through each our filter, we end up with each our own "true story".

And if two people are afterwards asked to tell what happened and what was said, the result will be two different stories. And sometimes it will even sound as if the stories have nothing to do with each other. This does not mean that one is lying and one is not. Or that one is right and one is wrong, even thought this seems to be the way most people see this!.

The freedom for me lies in accepting that this is how it is and accepting that we don't have to agree on a mutual version or on one truth!