WHO KNOW YOU THE LEAST JUDGE YOU THE MOST
“It’s always the ones who know the least about you
who judge you the most.”
Anonymous
There
seems to be an unexplainable thrill in gossiping about other people’s lives… I
mean, their private lives. It’s a strange thrill, as if like an orgasm… Sorry
for being a bit colourful, here!
In one of
our High School lessons, we had an interesting lesson… It was one of the essays
of A. G. Gardiner… It’s titled ‘On Keyhole Morals’. It dealt with our innate
and insatiable curiosity to know what is happening in other people’s private
lives… Yes, to see it, secretly, through the keyholes of their rooms!
And, right since my childhood days, I would hear the Priests in church trying to drill into our
little skulls what Jesus had said, “Why do you look at the speck in your
brother’s eyes, but fail to see a log in your own?” …
“You hypocrites!”
We still assume, that Jesus called the Pharisees of His time with that blunt
expression… We think, hypocrites live no longer, today!
Apparently,
the young Congress leader from Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot, has revealed a few days
ago, that his marital status as ‘Divorced’. Bassss! The world around us,
suddenly, seems woken up to something ‘earth-shattering’! All and sundry – of course,
who know the least about poor fellow, Sachin Pilot - started creating videos,
writing stories, holding debates, everywhere and everyday… You see, gossiping need
not be behind someone’s back, anymore… It can be up front, unashamed!
Besides Jesus’s warning
to hypocrites, the old proverb does it, too: “Those who live in their glass
houses, should not throw stones at others’”
But, then, we
all do… We assume, that do not live in our glass houses… We, also, assume, that
we aren’t those hypocrites!
Every time we
judge someone else, what we are, actually, doing is: we are revealing an unhealed
part of ourselves… The Psychologists will tell us about this truth.
Thus, when this
truth dawns upon us, we will, perhaps, stop peeping through the keyholes of
others’ cabins, and getting some strange thrills…
A very old
saying puts it like this:
“Once you awaken,
you will have no interest in judging
those who sleep.”
GERALD D’CUNHA
Pic’s.: Pixabay
Video: Gaur Gopal Das
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