Do Not Judge

                                         

DO NOT JUDGE

     Of the things we know how to do best as humans is to judge other people based on our own standard of what is right and what is wrong, based on what these people do, say, how they react to issues or their ways of life which to a reasonable extent doesn’t make a lot of sense to us. We assume so much about people, how we think they should act, place a particular role, how mature they ought to have become, how knowledgeable they ought to have become, and so on.

     But it’s not like that! And it shouldn’t be like that! Why do you expect people to become what you don’t actually know anything about? Have you ever taken time out to feel how they feel? Do you know they are also not happy the way things are going for them. You may see a car moving at a very high speed and immediately conclude “The driver must be drunk or must be a very reckless one”. But the truth is, who is in that car? What scene is the person playing out at that moment, out of all the scenes he has to play in his or her life?

     For me I believe life is like a movie with different characters and you being the main cast. You have people around you who are also playing a particular role or the other in this movie and each scene is played out for the world to see and know this, most times, people are expecting what scene will come next. But that is the difference between the movies we see on television and the movie of life, the movie on television has a planned and coordinated scenes and a scene could be changed or altered but it is not the same for the movie of life, you don’t get to know what is next, you only act as it plays out. Yes, you may say, that is why planning is important, I agree with you, it’s very important to plan but ask yourself, how many times you’ve planned only for you to change your plan(s) because what life was given you is not what you’ve planned for.

     So, if life could be like that when we plan for it, what of those that didn’t get a chance to plan because their scene is moving very fast? Why should we judge them from afar and call them Unserious, lazy ass, amateur, novice in business, bad child, bad father, bad mother, unstable student, lunatic and so on. For example, consider a student that has to work for him to be able to finish his college degree and because he skips classes just so not to be sacked from his work place to meet up with necessary academic payments, you tag him unserious and unstable just because you have enough people who are effectively active in your own movie and he doesn’t.

     Even the Bible talks about judging others when you leave your own issue unattended to. “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye” (Matt.7:3-5 KJV).

     So, I’m saying this to you, when you see people, don’t be in a hurry to judge them by how they look or what they look like because only God knows if you’d still be alive if you experience just 50% of what they are experiencing. That is why you can’t put yourself in other person’s shoes because you can’t feel the exact way they are feeling not even when you are using the same size.

     In other words, what I am saying is: please respect people for who they are, never take people for granted and cherish the role they are playing in your movie because you don’t know if that same individual will be the one God will use to make your movie the best rated one in the cinema of life.

Thank you and stay blessed.

     Please do well to comment on this post and any other. I will also like to know how you think I could become better. Thank you.