destination of perfection

I don't get why people can't just let other people be.

Why are so many so preoccupied with the actions, decisions and semantics of other people, when I've yet to meet a single person who is entitled to judge. Everyone I've ever talked to has faults they could be working on within themselves, or battles in their own lives that need their focus instead?

Why must people try to read between every line spoken or written by another, instead of simply taking what is said or read at face value? Perhaps we'd all be that much better at communicating if we just spoke honestly and stopped trying to "interpret" everything. Cuz from my experience, "interpreting" = "assuming" and we all know that one-liner about those who "assume".

Just seems an enormous waste of time & effort to me, when so much else needs our time & effort more. People are starving, but you are upset because someone said "your" or "you're". Children are bullying other kids instead of simply playing & feeling the joy of innocence, but all you can think about it who's FAULT it is. WHO CARES? How does blame fix ANYTHING but YOUR sense of self worth???

I am sick and tired of ignorance. Ignorance that we are ALL THE SAME. Ignorance that we are ALL HURTING. We are ALL FIGHTING for what we desire, we are all on a JOURNEY and NO ONE has reached the destination of perfection yet, NO ONE. So stop treating people like they should be perfect instead of fallible, JUST LIKE YOU. We are so blind to empathy these days, to understanding, compassion, GIVING EACH OTHER THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. Stop letting your negativity at yourself turn into justifying why someone else is WORSE than you are so therefore YOU can feel ok.

Oh no, because WE KNOW what you're REALLY thinking, WE KNOW how things SHOULD be, WE KNOW what the RIGHT thing to say or think or be really is. Oh WE KNOW, don't we.

OR.
NOT.

How about we all just take a breath, back off, slow down, and be just a TINY BIT KINDER to everyone around us. Stop thinking what others can do for us and start thinking what we can do FOR OURSELVES.

Sorry, Pres. Kennedy, but I think introspection might do a whole lot more good these days than charity & service or national pride. I don't think most people could even handle those concepts, they're too busy pushing someone else down so they feel just a little higher up.

But Yertle the Turtle tried that and oh boy if he didn't end up covered in mud and all alone. #


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