Rising above judgment

"I sometimes don't like or even trust my own thoughts, ideas, or judgments, I ignore them because I can't always trust them. So why am I going to get so worked up over someone elses thoughts, ideas, or judgments? It's not even worth my time."

I then let it pass.

Because think about it... you get a thought you dislike and you shake your head, clear yourself of it, and move forward - or you sit and you dread it and it does nothing but cause yourself pain and torment. You have the choice to take whichever path you do.

We all, as humans, pass judgment. Whether on ourselves; or one another. When we pass judgment on ourselves we are usually very critical but we live with it or we solve it. Nobody else walks our journey or our path and we don't walk theirs. We may see someone and pass judgment on them without knowing their lives and for me personally my next thought is "I have no idea what their walk in life is like for them and frankly - my judgments on them don't matter since I can't even fix the judgments I hold on myself."

For many people it is easier to ignore their own judgments on themselves and to pick everyone else apart. But that only means one thing : They have a boatload of judgments inside of themselves that are building up because they aren't handling themselves while they're too busy judging others.

Whoever passes judgment on you, has clearly never walked the life path that you have or more than likely that I have. He or she can pass judgment all he or she wants but remember - it's just a thought and many of his or her own thoughts, ideas, judgments - I'm sure they don't even like half the time. Because they are humans, just like us all.

The people who matter the most know and will stick by you. The others, they don't matter. And I know, easier said than done... but we as humans will always judge and be judged and rising above others judgments is all we can do in life.