What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more... — Tracey Emin

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

Author: Tracey Emin

Insight: We live in an age where everyone's convinced they're right, and Emin is pointing at something real here—the messy truth that two people can witness the same thing and walk away with completely different stories. Your memory isn't a video recorder. Mine isn't either. We're all filtering everything through our own wounds, hopes, and blind spots. But here's where it gets tricky: saying "nobody can judge" doesn't actually free us. It often just paralyzes us. If nothing can be verified, how do we call out harm? How do we hold anyone accountable? The real insight might be that while pure objectivity is probably impossible, some accounts are still more honest than others. Some people try harder to tell the hard truth about themselves. Some admit what they don't know. The useful version of what Emin's saying isn't that truth doesn't exist. It's that we should hold our certainties more loosely, listen to versions of events that contradict ours, and stay suspicious of anyone—especially ourselves—who claims to have the final word. Humility about what we actually know turns out to be more trustworthy than confidence ever was.