We are all ignorant fools
We all wish to be understood, and yet we do not often seek to understand.
We indulge in judging people at face value, just because it is always easier to put labels on people that we do not know, or understand. It is much easier to decide that a person is unbearable and that their abhorrence is infectious than it is to decide to take the time to break their defenses to get to their story. When you delve into the specifics of someone's life, you begin to understand their thought processes, and see the world from their perspectives, and that can be tumultuous, because all of a sudden their mistakes aren't as colossal anymore. Suddenly it becomes hard to blame anyone for the things they do, because everyone has a reason; their reasons may not necessarily always be logical, but they are always justifiable.
There is no moral to this prose. There is nothing to be learnt. Sometimes I think that selfish people have it better. They prosper from taking, blaming, and destroying, while the people who feel and who empathize grow weak and thin from devoting too much of themselves to this cold, unforgiving world.
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