Biggest lesson I've learned from school?
Stop fricking judging other people. They can live their lives! Who gives a crap! It is not your place so shut up! There is so much judgment that goes on here. So much. It is awful and frustrating and hurtful. I've gotten to a point that I just don't care what other people do because there were too many people caring what I did. Am I a bad person? NO. Am I any of the names you called me? No. Am I going to explain every single one of my decisions to you so that you stop judging my choices? No! Let me live my life. I have a good friend that didn't go on a mission. There are people that look at him like he's a sinner, like he's trash. There are girls that won't go on dates with him because they think he's unworthy or something. And he is a darn good person! He is no less than anyone else! You know why didn't go? He has a medical condition that prohibited him from doing so!!!! All those snap judgments people made were wrong.
I've found that everyone is fighting something. Everyone has their secrets. Everyone has their pasts and their sins and their problems. We simply cannot know by looking at them. I don't care if they didn't go to church on Sunday, it is not your place to decide that they are suddenly un-holy people! Frick, everyone acts like they can make these judgments but they can't! "You think you can do these things but you just can't, Nemo!"
Let it go. Let people do their thing. Yes, if it is in your power you should try to influence them towards the best. Of course we should look out for our friends and be concerned if they do something that is exactly good. We should probably avoid people that are just going to bring us down or cause us to err. You can go ahead and look at someone and say, "I would not have made that choice." But you cannot say, "because they made that choice they are a bad person." Just chill. Love people k? Everyone is fighting their own demons that you cannot see. But they are still children of our Father in Heaven and if he loves them just as much as your pathetic judgmental butt then you had better recognize that you are on equal ground with no room to judge. Stop thinking you have any place to tell someone what they should have done or why they were wrong or what kind of life they live. Unless you have something nice to say, shut your freakin mouth and don't say it at all, jackhole.
So, that guy's got a mote in his eye, huh? Did you ever stop to consider the beam in your own eye?? Until you are perfect and have walked a mile in his shoes you have no room to judge. In fact, you should be too busy working on your imperfections to stop and criticize any one else's.
While you're busy judging the other person and defining what you think they are.. the fact that you're judging defines who you really are.
