There are many truths

Truth is multifaceted. There are things that we all accept as the truth, such as the need for air in order to breathe or the color of the sky. But often what we believe to be the truth is shaped by what we need to be true. We all see the world through our own lenses. The people closest to us, the events we experience throughout our lives, those who control what information is readily available to us, and our own DNA, our natural instincts, all tint these lenses and, in doing so, contort our perception of the truth.
Young children have the clearest view of the truth. A newborn's perception is not sullied or influenced by what their family, the education system, or the media determines to be true. As human beings, we tend to compartmentalize and break things down to their simplest form. But the truth constantly grows and fluctuates. Young children see the world as it really is before being told how they should see the world. A newborn lying in her mother's arms looks up and is entranced by the sky:  by its vastness, the swirling clouds in the bright blue, the incomprehensible powerful feelings that are stirred in the tips of her fingers and the pit of her stomach. As the child slowly grows older, when she walks outside she identifies "it" by the label that her culture has given her for it:  sky, el cielo, tian; but she no longer grasps the full sense of it. In this way, the people around you and your culture manipulate your truth by telling you the names of the world before you can discover them on your own. As Anais Nin so eloquently put it, "[t]ruth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
The media strongly sways our idea of the truth. One cannot develop one's own view of an issue if the information one receives is only one side of the story. We may all accept that there was a mass shooting because the sources of information, whether CNN, Fox News, or Facebook, all display the story, but when one news source reports that it was a result of the shooters mental illness while another reports it was a hate crime, it is our own bias that veers us to make our own decision on where the truth really lies. Furthermore, our world is shrunk to gossip about celebrities, wars with the Middle East, and the same arguments about the same issues. While the stories from around the world are blotted out. The media locks us in our own cave, our own Matrix where we all are either living completely oblivious, choosing bliss in the form of ignorance, or struggling to free ourselves to learn others truths.
We all have our own truths. What is important, is that we can determine when to have faith in our own and when to recognize another's as more superior. Truth connects us to the universe, planet, and ourselves. Our perspective is the lens that we view the world through. The truth is what we are all trying to comprehend.