Right...or...Wrong?

Maybe the question is more like this: Right, or Happy?

Every heard the question Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?

I was once at the California State Fair with my brother. We were…arguing. When I asked him that question, he replied that he would rather be right.

OK, then, I replied. I want to be happy.

Every time we disagreed like every sentence!), and he told me I was wrong, I’d reply “You’re right, and I’m happy.”

He’d respond that my answer was not satisfying to him, because I was “just saying it, and didn’t really believe he was right.”

To which I responded, “You’re right. I don’t believe it…and I’m happy.”

This interchange, or something much like it, went on for about an hour, as I remember now.

At some point, we just stopped arguing.

And, for the rest of our time at the fair, we “just got along”.

Or, at least that is how I remember it.

That’s the way I want to live…HAPPY! I remember as often as I can, that JOY IS THE FUEL, and I want my fuel tank FULL.

My J.O.B. = Joy Of Being.

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