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The Two Truths to Writing: The Duality of Diverging Timelines

Jenna Citrus
2 min readJun 1, 2024

The fleeting truth of writing. Time traveling through other’s brains.
I have several truths in side of me. I once wrote of how I felt to be: I was anti-alcohol, then days passed, and I ended up on the other side of the bottle and was fairly happy there, time elapsed again and I’m back to being a teetotaler. These all accurately described me. These truths exist simultaneously, in writing form, holding me to my past opinions. Can hey all be true? Can there be this many dualities to the truth with how we feel about certain subjects? How can everything be true, all at once, yet, not at all? I acknowledge all sides to arguments can be true, hold validity, and there doesn’t have to be an ultimate decision. That’s how debates are waged with people on opposing sides, ethical or not, but when I’m on both sides at different times and see myself writing from that side, my past self writing from that side, it can be hard to hold all of these truths inside me at the same time. I know all of these truths were true and the side of anti-alcoholic is my current truth I’m happy to be living in, yet I revisit that version of myself that existed only 6 months ago and see how good it felt to drink. I felt like I was on the right side of things. I’m living in the opposite now and think the same thing.

I have two different articles written from two different sides of myself at different times. Writing is a time capsule, a time machine, not only can I jump from how I felt at different times, but I can…

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Jenna Citrus
Jenna Citrus

Written by Jenna Citrus

Writer, Artist, Creator, Image & Music Maker, Mediator, jennacitrus.com & beacons.ai/jennacitrus

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