When you choose, try to choose the right one

If I have to choose between “the right thing” and “the thing which I want” in life, what should I do?

I will tell you upfront that there is no perfect answer to this question.

Most people try to do the “right thing” all the time, but sooner or later they choose what they “want in life”. You can only struggle for so long. At some point, you take small defeats; you take the easier road; you get tired of doing “right” and you want the easy way out. I haven’t met a person who has been with “right” every time. A lot of people “claim” to have always done right. Their claim is never a proof. At some point, you always do what is easy. And what is easy is taking the thing that you ‘want’.

But, I think that choosing what you “want in life” over the “right thing” won’t make your life restful. In the long run, it will make you extremely uneasy if not worse.

And choosing what you ‘want’ too many times is how people create their own “personal” hell. I have met people like that. People who became rotten on the inside because they chose wrong and now, its too late to change it back. Hell, I think I have even been such a person at one point or another.

So, I would do my best to choose the “right” thing every time. And I would advice you to do the same. The apparent sacrifice in giving up ‘what you want’ for ‘what’s right’ is nothing compared to the trauma in store for you if you don’t. Even if you somehow protect yourself from the trauma, there will be someone who will pay for your choices because if you don’t do right, you do wrong to someone.