Can truth be bitter or sweet?

Question from the Internet:

“What are a few bitter truths of life?”

“Bitter” is already a subjective label attached to “truth.” After all, truth, if it is really the truth, then it is absolute. It cannot be bitter or sweet.

Of course, we cannot perceive and judge reality in absolute terms; we have no ability to assess things objectively. Instead, everything is egocentric and subjective.

So from our own point of view, “truth” can be either bitter or sweet.

And when we first learn about “absolute truth,” it is extremely bitter from our own point of view.

The absolute truth is that we exist in a fully integrated and interdependent reality, where we are all but individual cells or cogwheels that have to fulfill their predetermined role whether we want it or not.

Moreover, the other side of the truth is that we are born with an inherently selfish, egoistic, and individualistic nature, so we instinctively reject and hate this integrated reality and our role in it.

Since we have absolutely no choice in the matter, as our role and purpose is determined by nature’s all-encompassing, strict and unforgiving laws, the only option to change the “bitter truth” into a “sweet” one is changing our viewpoint and perspective on life.

We need and can acquire a totally selfless and objective viewpoint on reality, where we start to see and experience life from the perspective of the whole, total system, above and beyond any egocentric, subjective and individualistic bias.

It is similar to how we experience our own biological body right now. We feel and sense the whole body, and our consciousness resides over the life and experience of all the cells and organs within the body. But let us imagine if we experienced life on the level of one of the cells, for example.

Then we would see a totally chaotic existence with constantly, seemingly endless, aimless, and wanton destruction and rebuilding.

When we acquire the above-mentioned selfless and objective viewpoint, and we act and exist accordingly through a human connection network that resembles the cooperation and communication of the cells, organs, and subsystems of our biological body, we will create, use and enjoy an unprecedented “collective Human consciousness”, catapulting us to a sense of existence that is also unbounded by the egocentric and subjective coordinates of time and space.

This is how the bitter — egocentric and subjective — truth turns into a perfect and sweet — altruistic and objective — truth.