Truth

I want to know the truth.

Doesn't everyone?

Not really. Many people only want the comfortable truth. They want those thoughts and ideas that support and fall within the same frame work as their own. Ask them to really open their minds and consider something that is radically different and they will have a hundred reasons why it is not a good idea.

Common sense. Loyalty. Logic, although not real logic. Tried and true, proven beyond a doubt. All of these are "reasons" people give for not wanting to honestly and openly consider something that goes beyond their comfort level, but the real answer is Fear.

Fear is the reason people make up excuses for what they do and who their friends are. Fear is what makes people stand behind something when deep down inside they know it is wrong. Fear of revealing to others who they really are, or even worse, admitting to themselves who they really are.

Truth is often left in that gravel caught up in the net that sifts through thoughts before they even really become conscious.