Would You Rather Be Happy Or Right?
Let go of the need to be right and discover the transformative power of accepting life on its own terms. The choice is yours.
Issue #18:
Good day and welcome back to The Zen Journal. I want to talk to you today about something simple, yet profoundly important: the choice we make every day. We can choose to be happy, or we can choose to be right. But the truth is, we can rarely be both at the same time.
Every morning when we wake up, we’re presented with two forces: doubt and faith.
Doubt is dark and heavy. It’s that nagging voice that tells us ‘what if…’, that list of ‘yeah… but’s and ‘you don’t understand’.
It’s endless, and it’s exhausting. It doesn’t take us anywhere. In fact, it probably just makes us sick.
I mean, who hasn’t felt that weight of frustration, resentment, and confusion? That’s doubt for you. It’s persistent, but it goes nowhere.
On the other side, we have faith. Faith in what, you ask?
Faith that we weren’t put on this earth to live in conflict with the people around us.
Faith that there’s another way to live, a way that doesn’t constantly involve fighting and resisting.
Faith that there’s something more than the stress and drama that often fills our lives.
Humility isn’t about thinking less of ourselves, it’s about thinking of ourselves less.
