Is it possible that sometimes it is right to be wrong?
From the time of my earliest memories, I was taught right from wrong. Sometimes I didn't understand why some things which were fun and pleasant were wrong and why others which were unpleasant, even painful, were right. I learned to accept the rules even if sometimes they seemed to be wrong. Right is good: wrong is bad.
I carried this notion with me into adulthood and tried with all my might to be right whenever possible. I took great pains to insure, before I spoke or acted that what I was about to say or do was right, and therefore good.
Although I sincerely believed this concept, even though there appeared to be some paradox involved, I encountered people who seemed to dispute this. They apparently believed that being right was not all it was cracked up to be. They'd say things like, "You always have to be right", like it was a bad thing. I began to question whether or not it was better to be wrong than to be right. I couldn't see how but I considered it.
I found a tactic to keep on believing being right is better that being wrong. In order to end the cycle of "yes it is and no it isn't" in discussing the rightness or wrongness of the topic in question, even if you know you are right, admit to being "wrong". Sometimes, doing the wrong thing is the right thing to do. As a sage once said, "You can either be happy or right".
From the time of my earliest memories, I was taught right from wrong. Sometimes I didn't understand why some things which were fun and pleasant were wrong and why others which were unpleasant, even painful, were right. I learned to accept the rules even if sometimes they seemed to be wrong. Right is good: wrong is bad.
I carried this notion with me into adulthood and tried with all my might to be right whenever possible. I took great pains to insure, before I spoke or acted that what I was about to say or do was right, and therefore good.
Although I sincerely believed this concept, even though there appeared to be some paradox involved, I encountered people who seemed to dispute this. They apparently believed that being right was not all it was cracked up to be. They'd say things like, "You always have to be right", like it was a bad thing. I began to question whether or not it was better to be wrong than to be right. I couldn't see how but I considered it.
I found a tactic to keep on believing being right is better that being wrong. In order to end the cycle of "yes it is and no it isn't" in discussing the rightness or wrongness of the topic in question, even if you know you are right, admit to being "wrong". Sometimes, doing the wrong thing is the right thing to do. As a sage once said, "You can either be happy or right".
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