Paulo Coelho tweeted ,"It is so easy, yet so few can distance themselves from judging others."
It is such a simple truth about all of us. We are always assessing whom ever we meet. We will first assess on the basis of looks then clothes then the place they belong to ... . The list is endless.
I learnt the flaw of this habit at a very young age. At that time I was only 23 years old and so full of myself and my intelligence in judging others. Here I was waiting for the bus at a deserted bus stop with only another young lady for company. All this while I had made my assessment of the young lady on the basis of her very simple clothes and even simpler looks. I had rejected her as a commoner who according to me was certainly below my level of social status and of course certainly below my level of educational status.So as the destiny will have it I was in for a big lesson. The girl confirmed with me the bus number that could drop her at the same place as I was going. When I told her that I was waiting for the same bus to go to the same place, she asked me directions to a particular temple in the vicinity which she wanted to visit as she wanted to sit there to decide which of the two courses she should take on in her masters as she had got into two most prestigious courses in IIT. I was embarrassed at all what I had assumed about her. But as a good student I learnt the lesson of avoiding to judge and wait patiently to draw right results.
It is such a simple truth about all of us. We are always assessing whom ever we meet. We will first assess on the basis of looks then clothes then the place they belong to ... . The list is endless.
I learnt the flaw of this habit at a very young age. At that time I was only 23 years old and so full of myself and my intelligence in judging others. Here I was waiting for the bus at a deserted bus stop with only another young lady for company. All this while I had made my assessment of the young lady on the basis of her very simple clothes and even simpler looks. I had rejected her as a commoner who according to me was certainly below my level of social status and of course certainly below my level of educational status.So as the destiny will have it I was in for a big lesson. The girl confirmed with me the bus number that could drop her at the same place as I was going. When I told her that I was waiting for the same bus to go to the same place, she asked me directions to a particular temple in the vicinity which she wanted to visit as she wanted to sit there to decide which of the two courses she should take on in her masters as she had got into two most prestigious courses in IIT. I was embarrassed at all what I had assumed about her. But as a good student I learnt the lesson of avoiding to judge and wait patiently to draw right results.
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