Are You Fighting to Protect Your Own Truth? Someday, That Becomes the Power to Write the Script of Your Own Life.
4月 26, 2026菅原隆志47 min read
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ThisThe question, “Are you fighting to protect your own truth?”carries a very deep meaning.
Simply put, it asks, “Are you making sure to properly protect and value what you believe in—your own values and your true feelings—even when you’re swept along by others or denied by them?” That’s what it is asking.
In other words,
are you not pretending to be someone else just to match other people’s expectations or society’s common sense?
are you trying to live honestly with yourself?
are you standing up for what truly matters?
That is the kind of question you are asking yourself.
In my case, I grew up in a dysfunctional family and was continuously subjected to every form of denial. One technical term for one aspect of that is psychological manipulation (gaslighting). Because it was a cult-like family environment, that denial involved all kinds of lies and distortions; to put it simply, I was falsely blamed, made into the villain, labeled defective, and kept being treated as worthless. In other words, it was an environment of “collective gaslighting.”
In a cult-like family environment like the one described in the external article below, I was raised as the villain. That was one of the reasons my heart hurt for so long, and since I unraveled it, I’ve already resolved it. I hold no resentment, and I’m not bound by the past. On the contrary, I turned it into something positive.
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To return to the main point, though, it is extremely difficult to fight alone and keep protecting yourself against the denial you keep receiving within such small groups (families) (collective gaslighting, etc.). If those thingsremain unresolved and a person ends up choosing suicide, it can leave behind a world where the dead can no longer speak, and the dirty lies of those in power continue to stand.There are cases like that. I myself nearly lost many times, and there were long periods when I was unwell. Even so, at the very core of my heart, I held on to“my own truth”and protected it to the end. That process was very painful, but I grew because of how painful it was. So in the end, I can say it was worth it.
I don’t lie (I haven’t rewritten the past), so I can speak openly about my thoughts and my past. And this was not done out of resentment or a desire for revenge, but in a healthy way, to save myself, to become my own parent, and as the parent of the little self inside me, to give voice to what had happened.
If, like the perpetrators who played the victim while attacking me with lies, I were rewriting past information, there would be no way I could verbalize my past the way I do. That is because if someone keeps writing while distorting the past, the more they write, the more contradictions and flaws inevitably appear. That is why the rulers I knew who told lies lived by sealing off the past. Lies like that can even be found now through analysis by AI and similar tools. In other words, because they are lying, there are cases where they keep things off the surface (or cannot bring them to the surface). (Of course, there are many cases where that is not the case.)
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