“Don’t judge me. You cannot handle half of
what I have dealt with! There’s a reason I do what I do. There’s a reason I’m,
who I am”. Dylan Glynn Jones
Judgement: A
formal utterance of an authoritive opinion or an opinion so pronounced.
Tolerance:
Sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices, differencing from or
conflicting with one’s own.
Now, there is
an interesting topic “judgement” and, funnily enough it came up again only this
week. We are always reminded to be “non
judgemental” and I am in agreement with that if we lived in a perfect world - that
would be great.
The intention
should be “not to judge others in a negative way”. But we don’t live in a perfect world and things
do happen to us, people will hurt us, let us down, not live up to our
expectations, and abandon us.
We do judge
others and we will be judged. Its part
of the human way of thinking at this time, “I hope it changes”. Until it does we have to find our way to see
things more positively and people in a new light.
What if,
instead of condemning the JUDGEMENT, we could start seeing that the act was the
issue and not condemn the person in a negative way. What, if instead, it was the start of a
process that we view the action, not that person? Opening your mind to a new possibility of
seeing it as a way to grow, to change, to strengthen and to learn to love yourself
with compassion as well as others and then you are coming back to ONENESS.
It doesn’t
come naturally to begin with; it takes practice, persistence and patience to
learn to live a life of LOVING EVERYONE, yourself included. We live in a world where relationships are
all around us and we have to find our way through the maze, to undo all the
patterns of negativity that have been wired into us from years gone by. It’s time to stop beating ourselves up
because you haven’t achieved perfection.
But I would say this: “look at the way you see your life and if it is
not working the way you wish it to, then it is time to look at it with fresh
eyes and start the process of change”. Ros Clarkson.
