Become Defenseless: Being Wrong Is A Good Way To Live
When you release your pride, you'll release a bucket of stress
It’s okay to be wrong.
It’s okay not to know the answers.
It’s okay to fail.
It’s okay to make mistakes.
It’s okay not to defend your positions and opinions.
It’s okay for others to incorrectly label your behaviors, beliefs, thoughts, and habits.
It’s okay for people to say you’re something you know you’re not.
It’s okay to allow others to be right.
What do you get out of being right anyways?
Not much.
Pride, arrogance, and ego destroy relationships, lives, and the opportunity to evolve into more improved, peaceful, and productive human beings.
Society Is Addicted To Proving Themselves
It seems like everyone is trying to prove something to someone.
They want to be correct.
They want others to be wrong.
They want to enforce their opinions and ideologies on others.
They want others to appreciate and like everything they like.
But this is unnecessary.
Living from the ego will only bring pain, stress, anxiety, and unproductive emotions.
You don’t have to prove anything to anyone.
You can liberate yourself from this burden.
What Destroying Your Ego Does To Your Relationships
Ever notice the consequences of arguments? Usually, it looks like silent treatment, bitterness, unwarranted anger, lashing out, high blood pressure, miscommunications, and other unproductive consequences that frequently occur in ego-driven relationships and interactions.
As soon as I destroyed another layer of pride and arrogance, I noticed a positive relationship shift.
I no longer need or desire other people to understand my opinions and philosophies. They don’t even need to know them.
It’s okay to be healthily unattached to my opinions.
I don’t have to be correct if people disagree with me.
I’m okay if you think differently.
I’m okay if you don’t understand me.
I’m okay if you misunderstand me because…I don’t need someone to validate me.
I’m not craving dissonance.
Harmony is a much better vibe.
At a certain point, you realize that being wrong is one of the best things in the world.
It’s liberating.
And if you allow yourself to be “wrong” more often, you will eliminate so much stress that comes with trying to prove to the world you’re right.
Validation and pain-body addicts crave proving themselves.
People that constantly try to be correct are usually insecure people who need external validation and seek superficial feelings of superiority from being right because they feel inferior at their core.
Most people are ego-driven.
I dare you to stop trying to prove something to others.
Stop trying to prove you’re point.
Stop trying to be right.
Relax.
It’s not the end of the world if you’re wrong every once in a while.
It’s okay if you’re misunderstood.
You’ll be okay as long as you understand yourself.
Starve your ego and starve yourself of a bucket of stress.
What a great message Destiny. It’s hard to give up the desire to be “right” all the time. But it’s worth it to serve others. People are fighting a battle we know nothing about.
Goah dang this is a doozy article and very helpful.
You did this!