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Perhaps you read all of this text in order to discover which narrative, then, is correct and true.

I ask myself: which of these narratives is correct?
The truth is that this is the wrong question.
Correctness implies completeness, and none of these statements offers a complete picture.
The issue is not whether they are simply right or wrong. In each of them—and in the many more narratives I have read in recent days—there is a truth, however fragile, that deserves reflection.

But my task is not to choose one of these narratives and believe in it.
My task is to protect my individuation against these narratives: to find my own voice amid dozens of narratives and loudspeakers.

All these narratives ask us to believe one or another of them, to accept them and act accordingly.
And even after we accept them, they ask us to draw absolute boundaries against the thinking that opposes them.
Most of us do precisely this. We take up residence in beliefs and sometimes remain forever inside a single narrative.

The End: The Endlessness of Narratives

The truth is that none of us is wise enough to know which narrative is the right one or what the final outcome of believing in and acting upon any narrative will be.

In circumstances this complex—and, fundamentally, in any complex situation in life—the right question is not what we should believe or what we should do.

That kind of question focuses on an outcome we would like to imagine is the correct one, but the truth is that we do not know.

No two historical situations are ever identical, and nothing is entirely black or entirely white.
This is fundamentally why people prefer to think less and believe more. Believing is always easier than thinking and trying to know.

The only thing I can tell you is:
Never, never, never choose or decide out of fear.

You do not know what is right, but you can ask yourself:
If I were not afraid at this moment, what would be the clearest image before me of how I should act?

Anger, too, is rooted in fear. The person who is angry is, somewhere deep within, profoundly afraid.

Ask yourself:
If I were not afraid, what would be the most right action for myself, my country and the future of my land?

It is neither my task nor anyone else’s to tell you what is right.
Look at what stands before you and decide without fear and free from anger.
That decision will be the most right decision you can make on the basis of your own awareness.
Remain with love and hope, and act without fear.
Victory is ours.