Judgement

The best days on earth are the ones when you are not denied of your beliefs. One can believe they are smart, and nothing comes about to contradict that overwhelming comfort. One can believe they are attractive, a thought that allows a person to advance socially with glorious confidence. One can believe they are talented, witty, funny, romantic, athletic, musical, direct, welcoming, and even plain old nice when their belief remains unchallenged.

So why challenge any human over how they believe themselves to be?

No person should be denied the right to feel any of the characteristics that I listed above. It's not right, not ethical, not smart, not funny, and just down right MEAN to hurt a person's feelings. Why do they deserve to have happiness stripped from them? Why do they deserve to be judged until they are nothing more than a sack of water and carbon rambling over the dirt?

The answer: they don't.

No one does.

And the cruelty of people rubs off on others. Words chosen by chance and with absolute carelessness are thrown around all the time. If you are like me, I am sorry. Because you hear all of the nastiness; directed towards you or not.

Dude, look at her thighs move!

That kid's going to end up a deadbeat. You can tell he didn't do any research at all.

Why would someone even do that to their hair?!

She's only in the band because they needed more players.

Why does he talk like his mouth is full of marbles?

She tries way too hard.

That kid's an asshole. He messes everything up.

Yeah, people? Why don't you listen some time. Learn from your surroundings.

That girl loves her body. She lost ten pounds since summer.

That kid has other passions, passions that he devotes himself to! He's going to be an artist.

She did it to make herself feel pretty.

She practiced for an hour every day until the audition. She worked her ass off to make the cut.

He has a speech disorder, and he's not going to let it keep him from being the best rhetoric in class.

She wants to prove herself.

That kid is madly in love with the girl across the room, and he can't get her out of his head.




. . . Cruelty rubs off. It makes me hate people that I usually want to respect. The most esteemed in my mind make these mistakes and come crumbling down from their perches. But the world has come to a different conclusion: Judge, because everyone does it.

It's really, truly sad.

Next time you feel happy, feel unified, too. Know that someone else is happy and deserves to be that way. Protect that belief in intelligence and beauty and ingenuity, and let it prosper towards the future.

Good night xx