by Owori Kent Edgar

Everything in existence has an equal and opposing reality. Therefore, being right implies that somewhere, somehow, there is someone or something wrong. Sitting across the table from a classmate, I would swear the number they saw as nine was six. Each side bet ten thousand shillings that they were right. From a third party who is in between and looking sheepishly at the two of us, saying we are both wrong, “It is the letter ‘b’ lying on its  belly.” He almost screams. A stern ‘No’ came across the table from another, and this gets all three of us baffled. The fourth party says it is a ‘p’ lying on its back, and backs that with a new, crisp twenty thousand note… so we now have four opinions. Each of us is correct in our own right. Leading us to ask… who is right and who is wrong? The next question is, can this exchange escalate into a full-fledged brawl? Or can everyone somehow manage to hold on to their sanity?...  

This leads me to the realization that the danger of being right lies in a very subtle, almost always overlooked ego trap. When we become attached to our own correctness, we often build walls around our understanding, blind to what is happening, shutting out the broader spectrum of truth that is in plain sight and offered by the Universe around us constantly. This attachment not only limits our personal growth but also narrows our perspective, hindering our ability to connect with the deeper essence of life and humanity as a collective. I would compare it to wearing dark sunglasses in the dead of night.