Lately, I’ve been catching myself in a habit I don’t much like: quietly judging other people for the smallest things. A driver weaving through traffic, someone moving too slowly, a forgotten water bottle at the gym… and then, much to my surprise, I find myself doing the very same things. In this episode, I sit with that uncomfortable realization and what it reveals about the gap between who I think I am and how I sometimes show up.
As I wrestle with my own impatience and assumptions, I begin to see how much energy judgment steals and how difficult it is to let it go. Still, I’m trying. Trying to slow down, to soften my reactions, and to make room for a little more kindness, especially toward myself. Because maybe real change doesn’t come all at once, but in small moments where I choose, even briefly, to think differently.
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It is so interesting when people aren’t driving the way I want them to or when they are standing right in front of the food I wanted to get while shopping. I’m sure I have never done any of that!! Who is perfect? As my mother would say, only you and me!! This was fun. xo
Thanks, Akasah,
Lots in this one to contemplate. I like that you recognize and include the inner conflict of wanting to change and not wanting to change. Also, you becoming one of those “idiots” and questioning your quick idiot designation when the left water bottle was your own. Interesting, too, your trainer informing you he had your water bottle, your initial embarrassment followed by your challenging statement to yourself….. paraphrasing, here “really, no one cares”.
I question the “no judgment” rule one hears so often. It seems to me, as human beings, we navigate our world and the morality we wish to live, making choices/decisions and judgments of ourselves and others as we go, grow and change.