Do You Want To Be Right Or Happy
Camila Farah
Although this sounds logical the only person who suffers the most is you.
I used to believe that uncertainty had no place in my world if i wanted to be happy. Either be happy but wrong all the time or be miserable while being right all the time. At first it didn t necessarily make sense to me. While being right is sometimes accompanied by happiness in many scenarios the goals of being right and being happy are mutually exclusive.
A version of this post originally appeared on the huffington post. Can t you be both right and happy. One issue that came up is the need to be right. It was to my binary mind such a horrid choice.
Being right was the most important thing. Since being wrong was so enormously hard on my self esteem i interpreted the choice as no choice at all. Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy dr. Or people doing what you want them to do happy.
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We choose to be right instead of happy because we feel wronged and want to prove to the other side that they ve mistreated us. Ken wilber said something that is relevant to this discussion of right vs. The teacher shared this helpful quote. Do you choose to be right or happy.Do i have to choose between the two. Sheryl a client of mine is a typical scorpio.
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