If I were ever in a position to be interviewed for a subway hot take, it would be this: it’s much harder to be right than to be wrong.

If you’re wrong about something, once you recognize it, you apologize. It’s the easiest thing in the world. It takes almost no time or effort. You throw in a small elaboration, make some pledge about not doing it again or a lesson learned and you’re done. Anyone who is so stubborn that they can’t see this, in my mind, is missing out on a secret of life.

But if you’re right about something, and the other person either doesn’t see it or won’t acknowledge it, or just tries to sweep it under the rug, you have the full weight of truth and justice and morality on your shoulders. You aren’t just in a position of defending yourself, you’re defending these huge grand concepts we are all supposed to believe in deeply.

So you have two very unpleasant choices. You either raise and escalate the matter, potentially go to war, and often end up taking self defeating actions just to defend the concepts of truth, justice and morality. Or you swallow it all, live with the injustice. And that never feels good either.

So, that’s my hot take … hope for your own good to be the wrong side of things today, because it’s so much easier to get your life back in balance that way.