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When Being Right is Dangerous

Look before you commit – you never know what might be coming if you don’t

I watched someone walking the other day. He was an older gentleman and he looked like he had somewhere important to be. 

With head down, he moved across the road in a crosswalk. He clearly had the right to cross, but the car that was coming felt otherwise. It was a narrow miss.

He was outraged. He swore, shook his fist, and let the driver know that he was wrong not to stop. Angry man was right – the onus was on the driver to stop and give pedestrians the right of way.

But would it matter who was right if there had been impact? Angry man would have been lying there, broken or worse, correct in his assessment of the situation but wrong in outcome.

Sometimes, being right isn’t the most important thing.

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Just Let Go

They don’t care what you believe. They are just being swans because that’s all they know

We all have opinions. They are formed over a lifetime, and they change and adjust as we go along. New evidence comes into our awareness and the opinions we once held so tightly to don’t make sense anymore. Then we get new ones and cling to those.

People fight to prove that their opinion is the right one. Wars are started over opinions, and marriages end because the need to be right seems far more important than the need to get along.

One person believes strongly in something, knowing that it is the truth. Another person believes in the opposite, knowing that it is the truth.

So what is the truth?

And who gets to decide what the truth is?

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