27 March 2008

Two sides to every story

There's two sides to everything, at least. Some things and stories might have three or four, even more sides.

But can only one side be right? Or can they all be right? I expect the side that's right is the side that people didn't know about in the first place. The unknown side.

Think about it. If everyone says what they saw, and yet nobody actually saw something in it's entirety from an angle that showed everything in complete detail. For this we'll take an attempted murder as an example. Say a couple arguing, and things get a bit out of hand, and someone ends up getting hurt.

Now then We'll also say that this argument was happening in a street, and there were witnesses, all standing different distances away from the couple, all standing around in different angles. Now the couple are arguing about something. Each person hears roughly the same thing, but some are too close to understand the shouts, some are too far away. Now this couple could also be making reference to something unknown to everyone else. So therefore the witnesses could in fact take words out of context. Suddenly the man falls to the floor. He's been stabbed, by his partner.

So the witnesses come forward, they are all interviewed. The man's partner is interviewed, and because the man survives he is interviewed too. Lots of work go into the investigation by police. They seem to have everything they need from witnesses, with a few discrepancies here and there. Even the CCTV can't show exactly what happens, but nonetheless it seems like an ordinary case of man cheats on woman, woman gets revenge.

Everything is gathered, and it goes to court. The defendant, victim and witnesses are all questioned and cross examined. Stories seem straight, none get caught out while being cross examined, because they all believe that what happened happened in their head. There's not enough to go on for the jury to say whether the defendant is guilty or not.

You see while everyone thought they could have seen the man's partner stab him, what they didn't realise is that all she did was lift her arm to give him a slap around the face. There was a passer by that nobody noticed lurking in the shadows, who was well out of sight of the CCTV. He had a knife, and as the wife went to slap her partner, the man lurking in the shadows threw the knife, which conveniently landed in an area of the man, which the witnesses, from where they were standing, could likely be where she stabbed her partner, and yet she didn't.

So you see the other man got away. She gets found guilty of attempted murder, and goes to prison for a crime that she did not commit.

What I am trying to say is that things are not as they seem. Look at something from every angle. Try not to think about it, but most certainly do not judge. If you think you have seen everything from every possible angle, check again, I bet you haven't. The truth is often hidden. Even if someone only speaks the truth, the likely hood is that this is their truth. And not absolute truth. Because you see everybody interprets the same situation differently, and quite often, this is never the same as the next persons interpretation, or the last persons interpretation.

Another persons interpretation or opinion should not be judged however. For if you judge someone, someone else may judge you. It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree, because there will always be a hidden side anyway, but as it's hidden, there is no casting vote. As the amazingness says to me often, there is no wrong, there is no right......it just is!!

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