A lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands.
Her mum came in and softly asked her little daughter with a smile, “My sweetie, could you give me one of your two apples?”
The girl looked up at her mum for a few seconds, then she suddenly took a quick bite of one apple, and then quickly on the other. The mum felt the smile on her face freeze. She tried hard not to reveal her disappointment.
Then the little girl handed one of the bitten apples to her mum,and said, "Mummy, here you are. This is the sweeter one.”
No matter who you are, how experienced you are and how knowledgeable you think you are, always delay judgement. Give others the privelege to explain themselves.
What you see may not be the reality. Never conclude for others.
Let’s face it.
We all do it.
We judge. We like to label others. Put them in boxes. We don’t like “undefined” people.
We extrapolate based on our interactions and observations.
Judging makes us feel safe, comfortable because we’ve “defined” a person and because we have that definition, we know how to act accordingly. We move on to the next person and do the same until our entire social circle is defined. It helps give us a sense of control, of safety and you could probably trace it back to primal days when we needed to make quick snap judgments of another person in terms of whether or not they posed a threat.
But despite our best efforts to judge, we all know deep down inside we can’t really judge another person.
Who are we to judge?
If you can catch yourself judging, if you can realize the differences in people, and accept them for who they are, you’ll find that others will accept you, you’ll accept yourself, and you’ll live life in peace and harmony.
Life is too short to waste time and energy judging other people.
It’s time to rise above it.
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