TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION

Dipesh Joshi
11 min readApr 4, 2021

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain.

Fiction stories come from imagination and we as human beings want or believe that everything that exists has a reason and purpose, so while imagining fictional things we give reason and explanation to everything. While the reality or truth does not have to make sense or have any explanation because that happened and that is the truth and no one can change or alter it.

Such as the movies based on true stories do not have to have a reason no matter how strange or weird it could be whereas fictional stories have to have an explanation for each and everything and even the character’s behavior and choices is given reason.

Truth or reality contains the strangest possible things while fiction is limited to the possibilities of the person’s imagination.

Whenever we think of a worst-case scenario or a best-case scenario, truth or reality can always overrule our cases of imagination and leave us stunned.

It even happens when sometimes when we are down and think that we are never going to get through a problem, the truth comes right at us with a big slap on our faces and tells us that time passed…

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Dipesh Joshi

Bibliophile, Writing is passion. To make better future for everyone is the first goal.