We are all learning.
By Pose123
@Pose123 (21635)
Canada
March 11, 2009 9:05pm CST
We have all had the experience of encountering someone whose life seems so completely different from ours that we can almost imagine we have nothing in common. However, if we go deeper, we will see that we all have the same things going on in our lives. Everybody experiences loss, grief, happiness, excitement, anger, and fear. Everyone can have money issues of one kind or another, and everyone struggles with difficult choices.
Our lives are different because we each learn in different ways. One person may need to learn the value of money by having too little of it, while another may need to learn by having more than enough. We each learn about work and love, with experiences that are tailored to our particular perspective. Even as it appears that some people have it easy while others are in a continual state of struggle, the truth is that we are all learning, and it is very difficult to tell, when looking only at the exterior of a person, what’s going on inside. Let's remember this the next time we are tempted to judge another.
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@oyenkai (4394)
• Philippines
17 Mar 09
I'm a very judgmental person. I always try to read other people. And I always find myself uncomfortable with certain types of people: with those whose actions I can't see as rational. I try to see myself in their shoes, but I can't find it within me to be the same person and that's when I'd rather stay away from them.
There are people that are stubborn. That are stupid.
I am stubborn and I am often stupid.
Still I'd rather not hang out with people who are similarly stubborn, and are similarly stupid.
I might get worse :)
Thanks for the response on my discussion!
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
13 Mar 09
Hi Pose123! those are very beautiful thoughts my dear friend. I have always been looking forward to all your discussions because I am learning more and I know with those words, they serve as guide and enlightenment for me in each day of my life, aside from my Bible of course. I have heard once from a very spiritual person this very words that have touched my heart and made it one of my words to live by---he said, "We should not compare pain, nor count them for we can never say my pain is greater than yours or vice versa." I agree with you that we can never knew or fathom the pain of every individual, we may have an idea about his pain or her pain but never know how it could have been for her/him. I hope that we could always offer a hand, a smile, a comforting word to anyone who is in pain instead of judging or being self righteous about it.
Take care and blessings to you!
lovelots..faith
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
12 Mar 09
If we could only accept that these are facts and live accordingly. If it's said over and over and just changes one person's life it may break the log jam and give the human development a boost. Blessings
@koikoikeiji (356)
• Japan
12 Mar 09
It is hard to judge a persons problems or analyze other people specially when you are not in his shoe. Even you say, that happened to you already still we dont have the right to say anything about it, unless that person ask for help or suggestion. Even we experience the same problems as what others has having now, the hurt or the tension is not the same. Lucky for us if we have families and friends who are always there to give you a push. Always there to gove you a hand. How about others who have no one to callfor help. It is true that we dont have the right to judge specially if we dont like to be judges by others as well.
@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
12 Mar 09
This is so very true. I find it sad that we are such a judgemental society, yet it is the fact that the ego blinds us, and convinces us we need to judge others based on some arbitrary measurement tool. I would hope that more of us would begin to see that each person has a lesson to learn in this life. Of course, I would hope we'd learn to show some compassion as well, but I realize that this is the most difficult lesson of life it seems.
Namaste-Anora
@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
17 Mar 09
Pose-
Thank you for the BR. It made my night tonight. Namaste-Anora
