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Rogue-Ranger — Get To Know First, Judge Later
Published: 2016-11-27 11:57:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 3391; Favourites: 347; Downloads: 4
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"All ______ are the same. That person is ______ and that's all I need to know."Have you ever been judged by a total stranger? Of course you have, as have we all. But how many of us will admit to being the one who judges those we don't know?
Be it appearance, the way someone speaks or dresses, sexuality, religion or even political orientation, we've all judged someone we don't know. It's perfectly natural. We can need to make quick judgments for safety. The problem is when we let those snap judgments isolate us from the truth.
Have you ever thought there was no point getting to know someone because you figured you knew enough that it wasn't worth the effort? That's judging without knowing someone.
How would you like to be treated? Judged by a stranger or have them get to know you? Treat others the way you would want to be treated.
Get to know people for who they are inside. You never know, you may just make a friend. No two people are exactly identical, so embrace the fact that they're different from you and learn more about them.
In the end, as you truly understand someone and what's it's like to be them, you may just find that you no longer need to judge them at all.
Get to know first. Judge later.
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This. I really hate it when people do that. It's pretty much making assumptions. -_-
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Well, we've all made assumptions before, so forgive them, but yeah it's frustrating when people do it.
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Though if everytime I see a person they are being a huge jerk, I'll be getting to know them by how they treat everyone around me, so they look bad by their influence.
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This is really about judging strangers based in things like how they dress, their age or race, etc, not how they act. We should be judged by how we treat others, so if we mistreat others, that's not something superficial and is worth being judged by.
However, that being said, I believe people can change. Sometimes there are people who bully others because they hate themselves and are taking that internal hate out on others to try to remove it from themselves. For those people, I've actually seen patience and compassion eventually cause them to break down and finally start to heal. Of course, I've also seen people go years without changing, so it depends on the person.
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I figured as much after I posted my comment. Issue was I don't judge off sex, gender, age, or race I judge off character so this stamp went over my head for awhile because I can't remember the last time I picked on someone based off of looks.
I believe they can change as well, but let's say someone has treated you like shit for ten years, they are far less likely to change than someone who has for a single year. I know of people who have been terrible and no amount of compassion or empathy I gave them changed how terrible they were or how big their ego was growing to be.
Some people I have found, are assholes but their friends love them because they don't even notice the insults being hurled at them or the way they are treated and just stay in abusive situations which makes me dislike the unseen abuser more. Abusers are people too, but they're people who hurt people and hurting people that aren't aware of what's being done to them -or are too scared to speak up- and that's never a good thing.
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Ah, if only it went over everyone's head! But unfortunately people judge others based off of the most superficial things imaginable. Not only looks, but I've seen people bullied for their favorite tv show even.
If you can't change someone who is a bully, you can still help prevent damage by dealing directly with those the person attacks and making sure they know their self worth is not measured by the insults of a bully.
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Been there, done that too.
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