Harriet Lerner

kids are playing together in a sandbox in the park with their pails and shovels.

Suddenly a huge fight breaks out

no time at all they’re back in the sandbox, playing together as if nothing has happened.

one comments in admiration.

They choose happiness over righteousness.”

Grown-ups rarely make such a choice.

We have a terrible time stepping aside from

Our need to balance the scales of justice is so strong that we lock ourselves into negativity at the expense of happiness and well-being.

A great deal of suffering could be avoided if we could be more like those kids.

We could lighten up and let things go.