Sorry I haven't written in a long time. Life gets crazy sometimes and things are forgotten and I am sorry to say that this blog was one of them. But that's about to change :) A lot has happened since February when I last wrote but I want to focus on something else besides my life because first this thought has been in my mind recently and second my life is not that exciting besides more bad news and I am not in a sad hate the world type of mood so lets talk about something else shall we.
So I have been thinking a lot about judging people and what people do with their lives. First, I am a psychology major and I was in one of my classes and a professor was saying about why is it our job or view if a person is diagnosed with a disorder. Maybe we are the abnormal ones and they are the normal ones. Has anyone really thought about that? Or that maybe there really is another voice in all of our heads and what if its just more quite than others? What makes us be the ones who get to judge if someone hears or sees the world differently? Just because they are not like the "most" of us, do we really have to write them off with a disorder and stamp them to be judged for the rest of their lives?
Second, why do we judge people when they do not live the way we do? Yes everyone grows up with this idea of how life should be lived. In the LDS church, we are told that life is a big test. We get trials and we will be blessed because of them and that we shouldn't do anything that will harm our body and our spirit. We are also told to love everyone and to not judge but yet there are people in the church that will judge you if you slip just once or are not "perfect" or think they are getting judged by you because you follow the rules. Anyway you put it why do we still judge? In other religions, they are told that it does not matter what you make of this life because you are either saved or not and there is nothing you can do about it and yet they judge other people as much as the next. Why is that?
Everyone hates being judged for how they live their lives yet they will turn around and judge the next person who is not in their "paradigm of life." Those people are called hypocrites everyone. And in one point of everyone's lives we have all fallen into that category. You can pretend you haven't but you know what I know I have been guilty of this and you know that you have too. That's the thing, if we hate being judged so badly why do we judge others? No one is perfect and no one is the same. I live my life differently than the person next to me so what makes me have the right to say he/she isn't doing the right thing or is not living life right? I have no right...No one on this Earth does.
So challenge everyone, next time you start to think about judging a person, be littling them because they are not living life the way you "feel" they should live and look yourself in a mirror because I bet anything you are not perfect either and you should just smile at that person and be there for them. It doesn't matter what they are doing, they need a friend or a family member to just be there for them. They do not need a judge. We all have different paradigms of life and just because someone doesn't fit into yours doesn't mean to judge them but to just accept them for who they are and not force them into your paradigm. Lets try it. You might be surprised the type of people you meet or even better under the people you already know. :)
