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I've been dabbeling with different realist models lately. I think the true is a strange amalgam of our minds, external reality, true/false statements, and how we structure reality. It's not just pragmatism or nihilism, but a complex mixing of many factors both within us and without us. The perception of truth is one's model of reality. One can believe false things to be true, but reality will still be there, waiting to snap back.

We are not designed to understand true, we are designed to understand useful. Over time and errors, useful and true may begin to line up.
What about a piece of paper that is black on one side and white on the other, and you can only see one side?
There are many sides to facts, and statements that are technically factual can be misleading out of context. "We're all going to die" is technically factual, but it isn't particularly alarming unless additional information was provided. Only if you define 'mostly' as 'greater than 50%' The difference between green and blue is subjective. Something like 'The air on planet Earth is mostly nitrogen' is either objectively true or objectively false and that is not relative between different people. That is completely wrong. Truth and reality are objective and unchanging, they are completely independent of people's feelings, preferences, opinions, beliefs etc.If two people exist in separate realities where one says the sky is blue and the other says the sky is green-- because that is how they both perceive it-- they are both telling the truth, even though in the conscious plane between the two of them they can never really know that. Lies may or may not also be shared with others. What separates truth from lie? Truth is an individual's reality, which may or may not be shared with others.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. [1]
[1] Of course. Is the sky blue. What is your version of blue? Does 2+2=4 all the time everywhere and two what added to two what equals four what? Does to rivers added to two peanuts make four? Truth is defined continuously be each individual. Of course we sometimes agree on many truths but not all things, all of the time. We are bound by the universal law or constant change. Absolute Truth is the law that binds the nature of this Universe. Look around you it is everywhere. (*******)Real truth is only a human condition. Does 2+2=4 truthful answer is sometimes. At the centre of a black hole no-one knows if 2+2=4. Is my face ugly, ask my mum. What is the truth. Is my coffee hot, according to it’s lid. Does the rain feel good? Truth is a unique human condition. You don’t think that mother nature or God the father give a tinkers-cuss for those things we call non-truth. Real is dependant upon the virtues of the individual. Human absolutes are the illusions. Truth can't be relative; it must be absolute or it becomes meaningless. Truth has to be the same for everyone so that it can become the foundation for relationships.Impossible.All truth is absolute.
A piece of paper cannot be black and white only one or the other. Shades of grey are different and unique colors. Two objects donot occupy the same space in time.Those that say truth is relative are just making up an excuse to make their own rules about how they shall live their lives regardless of morality.
It only appears that there is a relative morality. There are different contexts but one morality. Ie murder and self defense. Even if that were true, should they have the same name 'truth'? Maybe there are two kinds of truths, truths which are absolute, and truths which are relative. So, is the statement 'truth is relative' also relative or absolute? If it is also relative, then sometimes truth is absolute. Two plus two is four. You mean true for you is different from true for anybody else? Something either has to be true or not. Truth is relative.