Deciding whether someone is doing something that is right or wrong is solely up to the viewer. If someone is murdering people this is neither right or wrong by nature. It has been programmed into us all the "natural" correctedness of society-but it is not true (for me-add this to all statements here on out). The murderer must suffer the consequences of society to maintain order, but not because he or she is amoral. Actions against the welfare of society are perceived as wrong if they benefit the person. That is a whole ideology I understand. This, also, is neither right nor wrong. Maybe my neutrality is taking over here, but I must say that all things are for the eyes of the beholder.
Whoa! De-railed from that as follows:
So new plan: I am taking a class concerning addiction. In this class we have to choose something we, as budding counselors, will give up to understand the loss and coping of something we rely upon heavily. I am deciding to give up judging the actions of others. I feel this will remove a lot of my coping with anger and justice as well as enlighten me. In my search for beliefs. I looked up a bible verse... I am no woman of the bible to say the least: but I will say this. The book has many wise sayings, so does Thoreau (as an aside). I was inspired by this:
Matthew 7:1-6 Do not judge, or you too will be judged. [2] For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Quick Judgment is Distorted
[3] Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
[4] How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
[5] You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Careful Judgment is Necessary
[6] Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
All of this has happened as I was writing. I have found myself to be judgmental to get out my own personal gratifications. I want to overcome that so I can live up to what I believe to be my truth. This being that no judgement is a correct one to make of others, or of self for that matter. Making a judgement simply means that the topic or person is bringing up garbage from personal experience. All these judgements are unnecessary if I can simply grasp this concept I (intellectually) accept, but mentally fail to follow at times.
There are no universal or absolute truths. I know absolutely only that I do not know. I can believe for myself, and that which I believe is my reality;I must live within it. I will attempt to stop judging. When I feel the need, I will attempt to cope by using introspection and reflection plus conversation and socialization. The judgement needs to cease. I say that I will attempt because I am loving myself enough to allow for error-alleviating the judgement that I must be perfect in my execution to prove to myself and the world that I actually care.
In all honesty I am completely overwhelmed by all the thoughts and instances in which I will have to remove my judgements. I want to see it as an opportunity to be shown things that trigger my personal hang ups-but I am also gripped with fear that I will make a mistake and lose all my progress with trying to be less judgmental. But hey, if I fail to judge myself just once-or anyone else, that is great progress, right?
I will try and keep all this in mind. Never thought my blog would become a behavior contract lol. Anyways, I just thought-I could blog about my progress-lemme know if that is interesting at all.
And to get back to what I was saying in the first place. We all have our morality, we make choices according to that morality. No one is right or wrong-it's all just different perspectives. I want to model that and feel free enough to live out my morals without the restraints of society, or guilty conscience. God willing.
-Jem
I think that's an excellent thing to try to give up. You're making me rack my brain to figure out what I'll give up. But, man, yours is going to be a hellova a challenge. I really like the idea though and definitely think that, like you said, regardless, the journey will be enlightening.
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