Well, I am afraid I cannot answer the question, as I am ALWAYS right & ALWAYS happy.
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; it is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. - John Stuart Mill
If I had my druthers, they’d be right happy.
i’m rarely right, so i’ll settle for happy.
right?
Right Happy
Is there a way to separate rightness from happiness? No, I guess that feeling is smugness. I’m not that sure what happiness is. Smug is as close as I get.
This is a good question, even without the pot.
I’ve discovered that being right (all the time) really annoys and alienates you (well, me) from others. I, too, grew up in a depressive home and arguments were the norm over who was more right than the other. OTOH, the inlaws are always happy and always optimistic. Frankly, I suspect an ulterior motive from them, like world domination. They are just lulling me.
But, given my druthers in exchange for a rat’s ass, I’ll try happy any day.
Why? What happens in 5 years?
BTW: after a dozen or so different medicines, I’m still not happy, so I rather be rich.
Well, please forgive my ignorance, but I’m still not getting it. If an anniversary is defined as “the yearly return of the date of an event that happened in an earlier year” (Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary), what is an anniversary year. I’m sure there is a simple explanation and I’m going to feel very stupid when I hear it, but I just can’t seem to make sense of what you are saying.
Well, a warm-hearted congratulations regardless.
I’m often wrong. And when I find that I am, I acknowledge it and/or apologize if necessary. And when I’m right, I do my best not to rub it in or make a big deal about it. (Although the occasional ‘neener neener neener’ is quite fun! :D)
Anyway… happiness; I pick that.
Shayna, you’re so right.
[crude Socrates paraphrase]A fool may believe he is happy and yet be wrong. Such a state would not be happiness, merely pleasurable and comforting delusion. Otherwise, there is no tradeoff: if you are smart enough to ask “Am I really happy?” you can’t be truly happy and wrong.[/]
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Yes.
If I’m not mistaken, the first one would be the Inaugural?
It occurs to me that I can be right & peaceful but cannot be happy & peaceful. Thus, I choose to be right.
I’m happiest when I’m right, whether or not anyone else know it.
I forgot the definition of anniversary, so please forgive my ignorance. So you see, there is a simple explanation.
Wait - was that Right as in the cardinal direction of bilateral symmetry? Or Right as in reactionary side of the French Senat?
Uh oh. There’s a difference?