Recently, I had a troubling disagreement, and I was deeply bothered by it, until I acknowledged that I might have been the one who was in the wrong. Nobody is infallible, and while it can be alarming how wrong the people close to us seem to be, it's also sobering to recognize that we could be just as wrong. Few people knowingly hold wrong beliefs or opinions, and yet, everyone is wrong about something. We should be humble and not judgmental when we have a disagreement with someone. We all have the potential to learn from each other, but we ourselves will hardly learn anything if we go through life with the assumption that we are right and that those who disagree with us are wrong. For all we know, we could be the wrong ones.
Thus, we should be willing to listen to others and learn from them, just as we hope they might learn from us. If we are all humble enough to admit that we may be wrong bout some things, we can all listen to and learn from each other, and we will all become wiser and less wrong as a result.
It's funny, but sometimes, in order to learn what's right, we need to be willing to admit we may be wrong.
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