The Right Of "Being Wrong"

Being wrong was one of my pet peeves. Being wrong was never in my lexicon, which means I was always right and correct. I was such a dumb dude! Many years later, I've realised that it is "right" to be wrong. For I tend to believe that we spend so much time in the environment, whether it's social media, the internet, friends, or family members, that pushes the idea of always being right, yet we frequently forget that being right all the time is toxic. I call it an illness because it behaves like a virus, weakening us whenever we are certain that we are correct. Why? The answer is so straightforward, because we deny ourselves the chance to develop, learn, and enrich our lives. The person who is always correct learns nothing from anyone since they are  experts, and they never progress or even unlock new opportunities. In my opinion, growth necessitates having the humility to acknowledge that occasionally our perceptions of reality may not align with reality. Accordingly, those who are always "right" will never mature until they lose confidence in their core beliefs. As I thought back on my brief life, I understood that, every time I thought I was right, I was actually wrong, for example when I was with my last girlfriend, I thought we would be together forever. And then, when that relationship ended, I thought I’d never feel the same way about a woman again. And then when I felt the same way about a woman again, I thought that love sometimes just wasn’t enough. And then I realized that each individual gets to decide what is “enough,” and that love can be whatever we let it be. Every step of the way I was wrong. About everything. Throughout my life, I’ve been flat-out wrong about myself, others, society, culture, the world, the universe—everything.

Consequently, I think it's wonderful to acknowledge that we have all been wrong at some point and that we will continue to be wrong occasionally. As we will learn from our wrong moments and grow from them, we should also be proud of all the times we have were not right for those are the moments that we became better than we were.