Reflections

Every single person on this planet is guilty of

JUDGING

There's just no escaping it.

I dare any one to deny this.

Its just too easy for us to look at someone or a situation
and give our opinion

Which isn't entirely bad right?
It is after all, OUR OPINION

However, does it make it right?

Do we HAVE a RIGHT to give an OPINION
about someone or something?

Lately, I've been more than aware of being Judgmental
towards others.

I find myself too quick to judge
and form an opinion about someone or something
that I know too little about
In other words, an UNINFORMED judgment/opinion

In my daily life,
I am faced with people who are

Self-centered,

Selfish,

Arrogant,

Egoistic,

Domineering,

Demanding,

Unreasonable,

Hateful,

Vengeful,

and the list goes on.

How does one handle these characteristics in a person?

Do we treat them the same way they do the world?

Give them back all that they deserve?

Do we rant and rave about them to our friends, family and colleagues?

Or do we take it in our stride and have

COMPASSION
?

You see, the more we behave negatively or have bad thoughts about people who we regard as "poisonous", have we looked at ourselves?

I realised that we are most similar to the people we dislike the most.

So, should we be so quick to pass judgment?

Or should we look at ourselves first?

With recent happenings in my life,
I decided to blog about this.

To my pleasant surprise,
I received a forwarded email
on the same subject

What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look. Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge.

So what is COMPASSION?

from Dictionary.com

compassion
noun
1.	a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
2.	the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

So what can we DO about the suffering of another?

To me,
the best thing to do,
is NOT TO REACT against the negative behaviour


Too often,
we think that WE should DO something,
let the bad person have the taste of his/her own medicine
put them in their place,
Hope he/she will suffer for making us feel
Small, unfairly treated, frustrated, used.


But you know what?
Then we'll be EXACTLY like the person we despise so much.


Bottomline
-------------

Understand the root of their bad behaviour,
Know that no one really wants to be horrible,
Something must be bothering them
for them to act this way


Trust me,
You'll be doing yourself a huge
FAVOUR

Don't let someone else's bad behaviour
affect the enjoyment of your life
or make u miserable

WHY SHOULD YOU?


Try this :

- Understand -

- Reflect -

- Let it be -

- Let it go -


Let me know if it works.


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