Judging Others and Yourself

     It is human nature to judge other people. I always try to not judge other people because I have no idea what it is like to be anybody else but me. I have no idea the struggles people have to deal with everyday.  People can go through similar struggles yet still experience and deal with it differently. The right way to deal with a situation depends on the person. You can only worry about what is right for you.  But I am human too and sometimes I judge. I usually try to force myself to stop when I realize I am doing it, but it doesn't always work. Sometimes I can be a hypocrite and I judge other people for judging. But now that I realize that I do that, I try my best to not do that either. So next time you find yourself judging someone, remember that you do not know what it is like to be that person. Trying to see things the way they do can help, but ultimately you can never really understand. You are physically not in their body- hearing their thoughts, feeling their emotions, and experiencing everything that they are experiencing. To each their own as the saying goes, as long as that person is not causing any harm to others by being themselves, it should not bother anyone.
    Fearing judgement is silly. Everyone else is more worried about themselves anyways. There are worst things that can happen than for a person to judge you, not understand you or think that you are strange. We all can be a little weird sometimes and normal is a myth. We are all just trying to do our best to make the most of our life in this crazy world.   No one can take your experiences/ feelings away from you and say that they are wrong. Although sometimes I wish other people could go inside each others heads and live each others lives for a day, so they could really understand each other. I guess all that matters is the people who do their best to try to understand instead of judging and the people who love you no matter what.
    Judging yourself is just as silly. Everyone embarrasses themselves and makes mistakes. Learning from your mistakes is good because then you will not make the same mistake again but there is no point in being too hard on yourself. Dwelling on your insecurities or the past does not help anything. Everyone has insecurities and no one is perfect.
"Before you assume, learn. Before you judge, understand. Before you hurt, feel. Before you say, think."

Here is a link that has an interesting explanation of perception:
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-red-same-my-red