Consider this for a moment. What is right? What is wrong? How do you decide? Does 2 + 2 always equal 4? According to David A. Gershaw, Ph.D., there are situations where it doesn’t. So, what is right? Your answer depends on your starting point. Where you begin will shape where you end up.

Our world is full of opinions. Personally, I like the statement that says, “Opinions are like arm pits. We all have two and they both stink.” Sadly, opinions often run our world. The one with the loudest argument usually rules over the one who doesn’t. We might all agree that this isn’t right, but it is reality.

No matter who you are, everyone was raised with some rules. Every household has them, and every child is told to follow them. Society has specific expectations, but these rules change with each generation. Boundaries shift, expectations are redefined, and when you combine this with differing viewpoints of each generation, you get a lot of opinionated people. So, what’s right?

The answer to this question depends on the foundation on which someone has built. Similar to a house’s foundation, it provides support for everything else. But what has created this foundation? How was it constructed? Again, in building a home, the type of foundation determines how tall you can make it. 

There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “What we live with, we learn; what we learn, we practice; and what we practice, we become.” Too often, we rely on what we’ve learned — but is it always right? Proverbs 16:25 states, “There is a path before each person that seems right but ends in death.” What “seems” right isn’t always correct. Old habits are hard to break, and so are old thoughts.

If you find yourself in a place and wonder how you got there, maybe you need to go back to your starting point. You might have a crack in your foundational thinking. Think about it.