Saturday, November 21, 2009

“Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance”

It never really occurred to me properly prior to yesterday how much we judge people in our lives. We judge strangers, who we have no inclination of, on their clothes, their hair, their style etc. It's ridiculous that in today's society where so many people are open to so many controversial and new, exciting ideas that they still don't find an ounce of fault in the prospect of judging people.

I have been a victim to judging people, I'll be the first to admit it. But I have seen the error of my ways.

Something happened to me yesterday which made me stop and think. I had been judging someone completely unfairly by the way in which they had been behaving. But then something happened which made me see this person in a completely different light, once they had been stripped of all the false exterior pretence and I was able to see the person inside, only then was I able to realise what a nice and unique person was present underneath.

It was one of the most eye-opening experiences for me. I was able to recognise how unjust and naive I had been. I've decided that I'm going to try my best as a person to get to know people for who they are, not to judge but to hold any doubts that I may have about them until I at least try to see what lies underneath. Because who knows.....they may be thinking the exact same thing about you.

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