So this is my first post here. Lots of things on my mind, lots of things I'm working towards. #1 among them:

Truth.

What do I mean by this? I believe that Truth exists. It exists independently of my degree of apprehension of it. "My" truth gets a lower-case t. The Truth that exists independently of my understanding of it, gets a capital T. Hopefully this convention will make it easier to understand what I have in mind as I continue in my search for it, and my writing about it.

I believe that the more closely I can understand the Truth, and align my understanding of truth with it, the happier I will be, or the easier it will be for me to be happy. Conversely, where I fail to understand Truth, I will find myself confused and frustrated by my experiences and observations. 

I intend to hold my grasp on the truth as I see it with a light touch. The more tightly I hold something to be Truth, the more difficult I think I will find it to release, should I begin to feel the possible need to adjust my understanding(s). As a result of this intention, I have learned to love being wrong.

Love being wrong? What? I get it. We humans tend to love being right, and hate being wrong. I believe this is self-defeating. Why? Because the moment I realize that I am, or have been wrong, I don't tend to STAY wrong for long. That is, my understandings CHANGE. Change is GOOD, if it leads me in the direction of Truth.

So the time came for me to EMBRACE being wrong. Let's face it: If I think I've got things figured out, and I am confident in my accurate grasp on Truth, well, then, I had BETTER be right! Because at that point no further growth is possible. Growth REQUIRES change. Now, of course, it's possible to make changes for the worse. Let's try to avoid that. But growth definitely requires changing, it seems to me.