What if I’m Wrong?

There is one important question every one of us should ask ourselves. It is definitely scary, but it is a question that can propel you further toward who you want to become:

What if I’m wrong?

For many of us, we were taught a certain set of ideals, beliefs, and ways to comprehend the world that we live in. We never strayed from that way, because it was all that we knew. However, as good as it is to be firm and confident in who we are and what we believe, the same traditions and instincts that we learn to abide by also have the power to blind us from finding something greater. As the years progress, I’m finding that I’m wrong about more and more, and many of the things I thought to be black and white, are getting grayer, because I never opened myself up to correction.

People love the phrase “it’s not rocket science”. Personally, I think it (whatever that might be) is. I’m not a rocket scientist, but I’m certain that the ideas held by those engineers are not the same ideas as what were held 30 years ago. The science used by these individuals should be ideas that are conducive to the safety of the astronaut piloting the vehicle that those scientists have engineered. If safety means that they must change how they look at building a rocket, then they must change their current ideology, and base their ideas from that point forward in the new information discovered.

In the same way, I wonder why we hold to some standards that are almost certainly wrong. Should we not treat our ideas like rocket science, and set our ideology on fire to find what sticks? So many of us are scared to change, and venture into the unknown, exploring new ideas that we didn’t grow up with, but we have to ask ourselves the question:

What if I’m wrong?