No truer words.
Think about this. If you are right and you insist that everyone know that you are right, you will live a life of misery. Everyone else is driving incorrectly. Everyone else is not thinking clearly or functioning efficiently. Everyone else is completely thoughtless. Everyone else is in your way -- is in everyone's way. Everyone else needs to vote This Way. Everyone else needs to hear this story. Go to this church. Read this book. Eat this food. Get this job.... Being the only one who is right is a sad state of existence.
So choose 'Happy Instead.' The line is moving slow. So what. That person just used her cell phone in public and spoke loudly. Big deal. That taxi driver might be late getting me to the airport. Okay. The coffee at that restaurant sucks. Then bring your own. No one else washes the car, and the parking lot is always packed. That relative makes terrible decisions. Those children are making noise.
Happy Instead is much better than being right and irritable. Certainly better than being self-righteous. It would be a lot easier for me to live by this if my kids kept their rooms clean.
I have been trying for years to get your Uncle Bill to do this. Is it harder for men of the last generation? Particularly those in law enforcement?
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