Making a judgment. We all have to make judgments about almost everything in life. However, making judgments prematurely can be a bad habit to get into, and not a smart thing to do.
There is a fellow whom I know, although we have never met in person. I know him only through the Internet. For some reason, I’m not even sure why, I never liked the guy. Somehow, on the Internet, he rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t remember what it was, but I suppose that probably on the first time we had any dialogue on the net, he said something that I didn’t like. I don’t know how he felt about me. Maybe he didn’t like me, maybe he liked me, I can’t say for sure. But, I didn’t like him.
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Yesterday, I found out some new things about the fellow. To be honest, I saw him on a TV show yesterday. He said some things while being interviewed on the show that made me realize that I had judged him prematurely, and that my judgement of him was wrong. In fact, after seeing him interviewed on the show, I kind of like the guy.
In fact, there is a third person whom I trust very much, and he also knows this fellow whom I had misjudged. I mentioned this to that third person, and he said “oh yeah, he is a real good guy!” Made me feel kind of bad for having judged the man when I really didn’t have enough information to do so accurately.
So, I am going to do my best to remember that making a judgment, unless it is based on hard evidence, is not a good thing to do. Judgment should be reserved until it is deserved, and is accurate. It’s a good habit to handle it that way, and I’m going to do my best.
Same here Bob. It is hard for me not to make a judgment though because that's how I am. Hehehehe…
We all have done it and can easily fall into that trap. This can also include many things in life to such as business or businesses. It’s never good to judge something unless one does their own research.
Hi Cathy – Yeah, I am really bad about doing that myself. It's one thing I really hate about myself!
Hi Travis – You are really correct, that we can easily fall into the trap on that. I know I have to try harder to avoid it.
Hi Bob – We have all done it we call it gut feel or intuition. If it makes you feel any better women are the past masters of this practice. The important thing about this type of decision is if you are wrong admit it to yourself and try and make amends to the person or persons concerned, after all we are only human.The man who never made a mistake never made anything.
Regards.
Jim.
Hi Jim – Thanks for your comment. Yep, we are all human, and we all make mistakes, the nice thing is that when we realize that we are mistaken, we can take action!