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Who are you to judge others?

We are given this one life to walk through, to learn in, and to actively shape our own personal choices. In other words, we make of our lives what we make of it, and we have the abilities to implement changes where we see fit to make them. To sit around pointing fingers and scrutinizing someone else for the choices they make, and the direction they motivate in, is wasteful and unproductive. To pass judgment against others makes us insensitive, nosey, and controlling.

If you have not walked a mile in someone else's shoes, the judgment you pass against them is biased. It is better to stay objective, and understand that, though you may not personally agree with someone's choices or decisions, you do not have the right to judge them. What does judging others do for you personally? It makes you look condescending.

Judging others almost seems to come across like the elementary aged child that is quite a good tattletale. They sit around waiting for an opportunity to tell on someone who is not doing things exactly like them. Is that not what you do when you judge someone? You are tattling on what you do not agree with, what is not being done exactly as you would do it, and failing to see that sometimes people do things differently or that there are reasons that motivate our choices. Maybe, the attribute you are judging works for the person, and are not something that will bring them harm or bring harm to others.

We need to walk through life minding ourselves, and our own actions. It may allow us to live in a more harmonious way, and stop us from looking like busy-bodies that need to have a controlling say in everyone else's life. If you are able to sit and judge someone else, there is probably ample evidence in your own actions and behaviors that can be equally judged by others. So remember, if you judge someone else, you leave yourself open to being judged as well.

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