Have you ever wondered about what the person next to you is thinking about? The person sitting across from you in the computer lab... what's going on in their life that makes them want to scream? That one outgoing girl in your math class... do you ever wonder if her smile is just a front she puts on just to get through the day?
I've often wondered these things.
My friends can look like normal people. Normal, every day, preoccupied, stress out college students. That's literally what they look like... but no one knows their lives better than themselves and the ones they confide in. You would never know that some of them are struggling severely and don't know how to climb their way out of this hole they call depression... or that one of them was raped last year and still won't tell her parents because she feels like it was somehow her fault. Or the boy who is homosexual but won't tell anyone in his super religious family for fear of being judged or worse, disowned.
You judge them for how they look, how they act, the way they dress or the things they do. You criticize their judgments, their choices, their actions. Yet you hold yourself on a higher pedestal, one in which no one else can judge you or your wrath will fall down on whosoever chooses to do so.
Who are you to judge the lives they live? Do you have any clue as to what they've been through? I don't think so. You may have been through some tough situations... but just remember;
you have no idea how blessed you are. Someone in the world has it much
worse than you do and usually that someone... will have a better outlook
on life than you do.
Before you judge someone else, I advise that you take a walk throughout every facet of their lives and the events that made them who they are today.
