the scene:

the 405 freeway in southern california. brent and tam in the front seats. kass and kota in the back.

kota: whoa! is that fog?

brent: it’s smog.

kota: it’s fog?

brent: no. it’s smog.

kota: dan’ang. so that’s fog??

brent, tam and kass: kota! it’s SMOG!!

kota: oh. it looks like fog.

all 4 of us: break into hysterical laughter.

i just now, after writing this out, realized how if kota would not have eventually understood that brown smudge in the sky was smog, he would have believed it to be fog. he would have looked at it in that way from then on. which could lead to some confusion as smog does not behave like fog at all. kota would not have had accurate information or the right view of either.

i think we all settle for untruths and don’t even realize it. then, mistakenly live as if they were truths.

“the truth isn’t fact and reason. the truth is what everyone believes in.” ~ Wicked