Truth...Universal?

When you say the word “truth”, everybody usually thinks the same thing. But the truth is different to every single person. So why do people think that the truth means “the truth”? Since the truth is based on opinion, it can’t be universal. And yet, we all think of the truth being the same thing. Fro example, in the game “telephone”, a person starts off with a statement and that statement gets passed from person to person, but as the game moves on, people may hear something wrong or tell something wrong, changing the starting statement. Now almost everybody has a different idea of what the starting statement was. This is like the truth. Everybody has a different idea of what the truth is, and yet, the truth still is perceived as the same “universal” term. How can the truth be the same for everybody, when everybody has different opinions? The answer: its not. Another example of how the truth is an opinionated topic is global warming. People will say “the truth about global warming is…” Other’s will tell you that global warming doesn’t exist. But there is no right opinion. Everybody has different opinions, which is “the truth” to that person. So the next time you hear something form someone, and they tell you that that is the truth, remember, the truth is merely an opinion. You can choose to believe that opinion, or you can choose to disagree. Either way, the truth isn’t something universal, something that is the same to everybody, but simply an idea.