Judging others or being judged ourselves.
Greetings my dear friends of this community of readers, today I was reminded of a story I read a long time ago and I want to share it with you,
Once a married couple decided to go on a visit to town to do their shopping. They got the donkey ready and set out to go, on the way the wife got tired and the husband decided that he could ride the donkey while he continued on foot.
As they entered the village the people looked at him and complained to each other and said....
"Look at that young woman riding the donkey while the older husband has to walk on foot."
The husband heard the complaint as he was walking and said to the wife...
"Now you get off, I am tired and must get on the donkey."
The wife consented and the husband then got on. When they went halfway through the village they heard people stop and murmur and saw them saying…
"Look at that man, he is riding quietly on the donkey while the lady has to stand on her feet all alone."
The husband hearing this said to the wife....
"Wait, I must get off the donkey so he can rest" and they continued walking just as they did in the beginning. As they walked deeper into town, people saw them and said...
"What a strange pair of people, they come walking and tired and don't ride the donkey."
Seeing and hearing this the husband and wife looked at each other and decided to pay no more attention to anything they heard from those people. They would never do anything that would please everyone and they went on their way as they pleased.
The moral of this episode which is not originally written the same as the story because I remember it but not in great detail but it’s a very similar story to this one. We cannot go through the world having a life of complacency for others.
A person will never have a life that in the eyes of others is a perfect life. No matter how much love, no matter how much happiness you show, no matter how much you have achieved, you will always be judged by other people for having many defects, because generally we like to judge everything we observe.
Sometimes people who judge us do not see their own defects but they can see the defects of others.
Sometimes people tend to judge others very harshly with their excuses, for example, if someone did a bad deed, but when it’s his turn to do something similar he justifies himself very softly.
It’s not like that, in the same way that we judge we should judge ourselves. We should be stricter with ourselves than with others and as far as possible we should not judge anyone.
God has given each of us a life. God has given us the gift of free will for us to choose the best path to follow, the path He left us in His word for those who believe in Him or the path we choose to follow.
In whichever path we choose He will be with us but we must know that the path we choose will be much harder to follow than the path He left us.
But in spite of everything we will feel accompanied by His presence and we will try to do the best we can. So let us not allow other people's judgments to modify our way of living or acting.
Unless it is advice that you have requested and you decide to do it, in that case it is your decision and yours alone to do what you are told without then throwing out your own.
Own your life, own your actions, be grateful for what you have and live your life to the fullest and consciously. May God bless you.
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This is the one of the best attitude that people had. But they don't even look themselves if they also deserved to be judged. I just ignore them until they get tired and then cannot get a single penny of making issues