...To Every Story

You've all heard them say that there are two sides to every story right? So here's the rub when both sides are so blatantly contradictory which do you believe...in fact take for instence a situation which is being described to you in some detail the situation and the detail presented to you from both sides is in fact exactly the same, the only difference is each narrator has swapped roles and dialogues in their own versions and have ended up playing the protagonist???
Something is amiss no?
So is it a case of excersing good judgement and weighing character and all that or does one simply believe the first version one is told on the grounds that further pondering would simply be a waste of time? Hmmmm....you could always just opt for the most likely version but then how would you know for sure that you were right?
You could of course assume that both stories are trying to grab the glory and try and disect the truth somewhere in between...or then you could just get a life and not spend hours trying to figure out an intricate web of fantasy and deception and then writing blogs about spending time trying to figure out an intricate web of fantasy and deception.
The fact remains that no one persons account is ever totally truthful be that consciously or unconciously people no matter how honest always color incidents with tones of their own perception....I guess this is why hearsay is inadmissable in a court of law. But what is it in our making that makes us so unable to recreate any event without embellishments or our own slant to things? Are we so fundamentally opinion ridden that we cannot escape it?
Oh well, I guess that's why they say there are two sides to every story and sometimes many more!