Would You Rather Be Right or Would You Rather Be Happy?

Even after we go to Above It All Treatment Center, AA, or alcohol centers  we can still be stubborn as alcoholics. Many of us have a hard time letting go of the need to prove we are right or that we were treated unfairly. But what we fail to realize in the meantime is that we are sacrificing our happiness in order to be “right”. Most of us are hell bent on having people see “our side” of things that we forget that what we truly want is to just be happy. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the details that we miss out on the beauty of life. We have to ask ourselves what good it does us to have the final say, the last word, or the knowledge that we have “won” an argument when we are still left discontent. Through sobriety and receiving rehabilitation we learn that everyone has the right to be wrong. We can begin to see that everyone is doing the best they can in that given moment and just because our truths or realities resonate with us does not mean that they are other people’s truths or realities too. If we continue to keep our side of the street clean, allow others to be themselves, and cease from fighting people, places, and things, then we can be free and have a sense of peace and serenity that we never had before we got sober.