The half truth

In this age of fake news and half-truth, there are so many things I cannot say for sure anymore

A picture of a woman with tears streaming down her cheeks, her face contorted as though she was struggling to come to grips with some terrible tragedy that had befallen her was the first time I truly understood how misleading images can be. This one image threw the notion that pictures don’t lie straight out of the window for me. 

On the turning page was the uncropped frame of the picture. It showed the woman sitting on a stool, peeling onions piled up in a tray balanced on her knee. Her tears and expression of pain came from the sharp sting