Go! Choose Happiness
June 19th, 2008 by Mighty MorganMighty Morgan here!
Well after a few days of service interruption as well as a sword impaled into the space bar on the keyboard of my other computer, I’m back online and ready to write.
Something I try to live by is keeping myself in a happy balance within my life. I know that in times of inner discontent that more often then not, I am being presented with an opportunity to redefine my current circumstances through the contrasts that may be occurring. A particular a quote I often refer to in moments of doubt, confusion and anger is…..
“It is more important to be happy then it is to be right.”
Although I intellectually understand this and do my best to live and let live, sometimes in the midst of an emotional tidal wave, I just want to cling to the idea that I am right and in doing so find no relief from the unhappiness that often trails behind when my feelings are validated. I try to discern where this power struggle stems from and why although I know I am right, why I feel I have to have others agree with my point of view in order to reclaim my right to happiness, especially when I feel hurt by the words or actions of others.
So my question to you all is how do you allow yourself to be right and allow another to also be right and still find that delicate balance of happiness in the entire mix of it all??
If it gets that complicated, chances are that there is no right or wrong. So, then I listen to their point without interruption and then speak my mind, exchange back and forth calmly and then validate that they have good points, but that I disagree. It does not mean a break in the relationship. It is just that no one is going to agree with you 100% of the time and if you are living in that fantasy…it is time to grow up. But, I still want the other person to say, “I’m right!” Because I am!!! Just kidding. The trick is for both people to be able to be openminded and mature enough to just listen to another point of view and agree to disagree…wouldn’t that be great if nations would do that. Instead of the immature, “I’m right, so he is wrong.” As wide reaching implications.
I believe you are right
lol….in regards to neither person being right. For the most part in my experience, every person in some way, shape or form has a valid claim on being “right”, my own personal struggle with it at times stems from my wanting to be heard and validated on the points that my perspective informs me are right…..in the end I don’t particularly think it even has to do with being right or wrong, that is just a disguise that my ego presents itself in order to taint a moment with self- righteousness’s …….OKAY way too musk thinking going on in my head at the moment…need to s t o p thinking 
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I dont worry about if I right or not… as far as thoughts go…
Im Australian I am always right… lol….
As far as happiness goes it really doesnt bother me as far as wrong and right who wins who looses etc.. its all relative…
Actually I cant really make the distinction anymore… its just something else which happens… a good day I am pleased perhaps happy, the kids do something which makes me laugh or proud makes me happy… but a not so good day is just get on with it… I take it all as it comes…
Pretty much I just get on with it and try to ignore the rest…. which ever way the day is going…
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Oh my little Aussie…how I am so jealous of your ability to detach from situations and just let them be…….I can be like that at times…when things are going my way…lol
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That is actually quite healthy…congratulations!!!
Very powerful, for sure.
That is why she is “Mighty Morgan!”
Understand that when you think you are right, you are observing your thoughts as right. Your thoughts are different from your conscience, or who you actually are. The same goes for others. When you think they are right or wrong, you think their thoughts are right or wrong, not their actual conscience. Therefore, my thoughts can be right and your thoughts can be right and at the same time we can still consciously be happy.
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A for my thoughts being right or not you could be right
But I’m more wrapped up within the whole aspect of my emotions that my thoughts attached themselves to which….”FEEL” wrong….
I think detachment is something I’m missing here…..I know that any situation, circumstance or event is only as powerful as the observation or label I give it and the past has a major influence on how the present is perceived…..but I’m just not there yet in relation to letting things be what they are, without investing my emotions into them…..
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Also, sorry I’ve been away for so long… how’s things been in the garden?
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we have missed you Zack.. were you been on holidays … sunning yourself…..
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Welcome back Zack…things are better now that your back :()
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We miss your modest wisdom in your posts Zack - dont be shy now!
TO be happy and be right….
Hmmmmm - right in whose eyes??
Some are wrong and happy and even one more than that - fulfilled and right / wrong…
The point is - right or wrong doesnt matter to the fulfilled /happy person….
Happy and fulfillment are key that are not connected to right or wrong and therefore can be free to exist…
yours happily but maybe not right! Just what they are - as IS!
There is something about the title anyway:
“Choose Happiness, Choose Cadbury”
A slogan for a chocolate company in Malaysia..
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Chocolate and coffee…now that is happiness. Calming, soothing and comforting.
Yum - Although Cadburys choc is unbeatable in the UK - Dubai and the US just cant seem to crack it!