Still not recovered

So I'm here at work and I've asked a few people and one guy said I did the right thing and the other said he would have been more concerned about winning more and would have folded. I guess I should have been in the mindset of making more money and if I was then it is a easy laydown. Let me give a little background and you can decide.

I had just moved to this table to balance out 6 and 6. Luckymona was chip leader for most of the tourney then took some major beat and was almost out. By the time I moved to the table luckymona had clawed her/his way back to 2nd. I came into the table and my first hand I was in the big blind. I had A10 and mona had raised on the button to $12,000. I had $4,000 invested and smooth called. Flop came 632 and mona bet $4,000 again and reraised to $12,000. After thinking about it mona folded and I was off to a good start. I wonder if I did't defend my blind, would mona had done what he/she next time on the button. I didn't play any hands again till I was on the big blind and mona was on the button. That was 6 hands. Out of those 6, mona had raised 4 of them and only one was called and mona lost to an all in when mona's AJ lost to a 88.

Then it folded around to mona on the button and goes all in for $132k. I have $122k. I have JJ. I actually should have taken longer to think about it than I did but I feel my end reaction would have been the same. Call. Mona has AK and I'm a 57% to 43% favorite. Flop comes QT8. After the flop I'm a 72.5% favorite to win. After the Ace hits on the turn I am a 16% favorite and am down to 4 9's left in the deck. River blanks and IGHN.

So my question is was I right in calling or should I have just waited for a better time since so close to the final table and a possible big payday? Overall I played really well only making imo 1 mistake early on when I checked a straight hoping to check raise the original raiser and flop better and the guy checked also and made a 4 card flush on the river. Cost me about $15,000 in chips. Besides that I played great. Really happy for not having played in 2 months. Hopefully this will carry to the WSOP.