I Hate Titles

It's difficult to live up to one's own ideals, so I try not to hold it against people too much when I disapprove of their actions. After all, why should they have to follow my own arbitrary ideas about how one should conduct one's life? I don't follow theirs. And I know that everyone can be unpleasant sometimes, although hurting others is never their intention. Therefore, I try not to judge. Unfortunately, this too is an ideal, subject to the same weakness as all the others: emotions. Sometimes I do judge. I probably judge quite a lot, more than I realize. It's difficult to always live by one's principles, especially if they primarily focus on not hurting others, because whether we are helpful or burdensome to others at any given time is often based on our mood. Of all the things about ourselves we ought to control, mood is the hardest (at least for me).

Still, often it's OK that the people you love should have to deal with your moods--they signed up for it by loving you, and usually you deal with their moods, too. But it isn't right that the people I live with, whom I love, should have to deal with me judging them (even if some of them don't realize that I do). Honorability is a luxury, after all, and I'm far from perfect at it myself. I will make additional efforts to stop judging, since I realize I've been doing a lot of that lately. It's something I owe to everyone else.