Saturday 5 March 2011

Judging & Prophesying about others ?

Oh my God! You have failed in giving the right prophecies.
You prophesied about someone, this person is bound to fail in his/her life.
You prophesied, this person is never going to find happiness in his/her life.
You prophesied, this person can never gain respect in the society.
Because you think, that person doesn’t take the right decisions, but to your surprise that same person is becoming quite successful, very happy and well respected in the society.
How can this be true? How come your prophecy went wrong?
Actually, we often judge others on our own minuscule set parameters, the way we are or, what we think is right or wrong. We instantly start labelling people as good or bad; successful or a failure; affectionate or cold; but, we forget people are different – for that matter in the same family, even siblings who are brought up under similar family conditions turn out to have different personalities. They think differently, have different priorities, different motivating factors and different circumstances in which they take a particular decision and even act differently under the same circumstance.  
We all need to understand this fact and appreciate others for being different. For this, we first need to stop our habit of instantly judging and prophesying about others and see a positive aspect in every person we know and appreciate them for that. This automatically will start removing the cloud of ignorance and arrogance from our eyes and mind.
Moreover, once we see our prophecy has failed it hurts us the most, we start feeling jealous and our egotism increases – how come a person whom I have always thought as useless has now become so successful? We start thinking even harder to dig into their personalities to prove ourselves, rather than anybody else that, that person is still wrong. We  start using our mind in destructive manner to hurt that person or to do all that which can put that person down because this act satisfies our ego, rather than admitting that the person just took a different route to reach his/her destination.
There could be a hundred ways which one can adopt in reaching his/her destination, it is not necessary someone will adopt your way because you think that is the only best way of doing that thing.
Instead of getting into this vicious pain cycle, if we just start appreciating others for being different and love them for their positive attributes we can avoid all this agony and pain.
Set your parameters for yourself not for others; judge yourself on them, not others; because those are your set parameters not theirs.
So let’s not get into all this rather ---------- Let’s start appreciating others for being different.