Wisdom: Opposite of Justice (Letting Go: Be Wise, Choose Life)

In life we can choose one of two paths: to be right and on the side of justice or to be wise and move on with our lives.

Wisdom requires compromise and compromise requires sacrifices which are often unfair and unjust – but always wise.

Grudges, rumination, and personal rivalries are self-defeating.

Letting go and moving on require a conscious acceptance that life is not fair and not just, that it reflects asymmetries of power and endowments, that the playing field is anything but level, and that cunning, scheming, callousness, and ruthlessness are often rewarded.

The wise man and woman pick their battles. They never feel disrespected or undignified when they are grounded in the realities of survival, when they have to give in and give up.

When your sense of self-worth is tied up in always being right, prevailing, winning, being treated justly and fairly – you are a narcissist with a sense of entitlement or maybe you are trying to reduce and assuage your existential angst and anxieties. Either way, it is unhealthy.

The world and people in it owe you nothing, not even justice and fairness.

Life is too short, our resources too scarce, most issues cannot be resolved, most wounds cannot be healed, most people are less than morally upstanding. Take it or leave it. Get over it. Invest in life, not in abstract notions and principles.

Be wise. Choose Life.

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