Judge Not

"Judge not lest ye be judged."

There are some morals that I have thought very primary to my belief system. One being to not judge others. I read recently in a book about Waldorf education that humans are like trees. We see the tree, but we don't see the root system. Which is more important, that which we see or that which we don't see? To think that what we see in other humans is the whole truth is foolish. There is so much that we will never know even about those closest too us. For goodness sake, I don't even fully understand myself. So how can I judge another? I'm not going to say that I don't judge. That would be a lie. As humans it is in our nature to make judgments. It is a survival mechanism. So as I write down some of my experiences I am scared that I will be judging. I guess the only way to fully avoid this is too write the facts as I experienced them, or as I remember experiencing them. And then to allow you to make your own judgments. I don't think that most of the people that have hurt me did so consciously. I fully believe that they thought that they were making right choices. Right and wrong are very subjective. Here is a good spot to remind you of that root system. Our logic may be very different from that of another human being.

(Idea for tree analogy from Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out by Jack Petrash)