Earlier today, I was watching one of Dave Chappelle's comedy specials on YouTube and he had told a story of the one time he realized how the truth could get you drunk and you realize it only when it turns out that your truth isn't the real truth afterall.
Basically what that means is that most times when we feel we're saying the truth, we get super confident about it, we talk confidently and sometimes even rudely, because we believe we have all the facts, we know all the truth..so we don't realize how differently we're acting, until a new information comes to light that shows that the truth we thought we knew, isn't the real truth afterall, that is when we get back to reality and all of that confidence and rudeness disappears.
A good example is someone accusing their partner of cheating, probably because one of their friends had taken a picture of them while they were out with someone else, and had sent it to their partner at home. So when the "cheating partner" comes back home, their boyfriend of girlfriend goes off on them, calling them names and all sorts of things.
Now they're saying those things because they belive they truly know the truth of the entire situation, that their partner is a cheat. But watch the way they come back to their senses the moment their partner pulls out their phone and show their suspecting partner proof that the person they saw them with was a relative.
You will see the suspecting partner sober up so fast, that you will be shocked by how fast they can go from being completely certain and confident about something, to being sorry that they jumped into conclusion.
When Chappelle said this, I so much related to it because I've been in this situation more than ones with friends, and every time it happens, I feel like a terrible person, because I realize that I didn't have to be that rude or too confident just because I believed I had the truth with me.
But sadly, this is human nature and knowing what I know now, I still know for a fact that I would react this same way tomorrow if things repeat itself... And it's not because I'm an asshole, it's just how we've been programmed to act when we feel we have irrefutable evidence or truth.