Monday, August 3, 2009

Right and wrong...

Every person is specifically different. We all act differently and think differently. We are all individuals with a unique attribute set. Thus we all see things differently.

Imagine a scenario of finding a twenty dollar bill at a grocery store. Do you give it to the person the closest to it? Turn it in? Pocket it? There's a million options and behaviors, each unique to the individual.

We all act and react based upon how we were taught. We are a culmination of our experiences and our environment. We behave how we think we are supposed to behave... and in an odd way that's all we can do. With this realization, when looking at others, all we can do is understand and accept.

Back to the twenty dollar scenario, there's a variety of people in the world that would do each one of those things. Some people would keep it without question. Some people would return it. Some people would attempt to track down it's owner. There's a million degrees of these scenarios, a million different people who would do each one. These same million people would each consider how the other one handles it as wrong. "You are stupid to return it." "You are stupid to keep it."

People handle things how they think they are supposed to handle them. To extrapolate further, people also judge others based on they think they would react if they were in the same situation. We hold other people to our standards even though these standards are not their standards.

If everyone handles a situation differently, there's a million styles of right as well as a million styles of wrong. Each right and wrong belonging to a different person. How we handle something is right to us and could be wrong to another.

We are individuals. We come from a different background and have had different experiences. These experiences are what shape us. We try to put ourselves in other people's shoe and fail because we don't know all the factors.

There's only one person that we can truly comment on and that person is ourself. The only energy and thought that we need to expend is to make sure our actions and reactions make sense to us. To judge another person is pointless and a waste of time.

We are all different and that's what makes us amazing. Keep smiling everyone, today is going to be a great day...

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