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Learned my lesson

Many people care more about being right than being happy

James Clear
sapientdream – Pastlives 

I was the person with utmost respect for philosophy, ideals, principles and dead people’s quotes.

In the name of being true, honest, assertive and straight, I’d hurt many people. I’d walk over them many-a-times. I’d abandon those whoever didn’t agree with my view of the reality.

I was the Sherlock who always wanted to have the last say even though it meant at the cost of cold and bitter relationships.

I’ve learned my lessons.

And, just as Vicki Tidwell Palmer puts it:

Choosing to be happy rather than being right means you value creating understanding, or maintaining harmony and peace over insisting on being heard, making sure that other people “get” you, or teaching someone else a lesson.

Not everything in life is objective or more precisely, most of the things in life are subjective.

Lastly, David Hume best describes it in the opening line of his philosophical book, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, published in 1748, where he says,

Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man

Namaste.