Do we go one day without passing some sort of judgment?
“Her shoes are cute!”
“I don’t know how I feel about having 4 kids like them!”
“The traffic looks crazy. I’d hate to be the one driving today.”
“What a rude person, not even smiling back or saying hi.”
“The house looks like a disaster.”
There is a constant stream of judgement we pass on daily, whether it is negative, positive or even seemingly neutral.
We live in a world where we are encouraged to have opinions about everything. With opinions, we tend to pass on judgement. We categorise people, things, experiences as ‘good,’ ‘bad,’ ‘annoying,’ ‘fun,’ ‘boring’ and ‘exciting.’
Does anything HAVE to mean something?
No, but we as meaning making machines, like to make things mean something.
What if, we let go of the need to make a experience not mean anything? To give an example of this, lets suppose you are walking and you see two people arguing. What happens if you don’t pass judgement on what you see and see it as a part of the human experience?
If your normal thinking pattern is to see arguments as “bad,” “unpleasant,” “avoid” or even an opportunity to prove the “I am right” mentality…..
What if you choose to see it as “normal” and “part of the human experience” instead? What happens then?
Common humanity means coming to terms with the fact that there are far too many things, experiences in life that happens to us all. On the broader sense of common humanity, we all are born into this world and every single one of us one day dies. We all encounter failure, loss, struggles, rejections, acceptance, gains, success and opportunity in life. The scale of each experiences might differ but the experiences nevertheless remains.
We ALL have so much in common. Which is why, certain things in life is just the way it is.
The sky is vast and appears endless to the human eye. When you are in a bad mood, you can see the sky or the rain pouring down from the sky as a bad sign, or as something super annoying, or even a form of personal attack. In contrast, when you are in a good mood, you can see the same experience as something beautiful, a good omen, but it too is the way it is.
If you don’t see it as bad or good, or categorise it in some ways, you become closer to seeing it for what it is.
If we were stop from categorising what we THINK it is, we can let things BE the way they are meant to.
Reflective Challenge
I challenge you to choose one experience in your everyday life that you find yourself passing some judgement on and choose to see it as a part of the human experience.
I challenge you to choose to see it in its true essence.
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