You know how they tell you not to judge someone based on their past.
Well it’s true and we really shouldn’t!
But I’ve got another view on this. The other side of the coin, you may say !!!
Just how we shouldn’t judge someone based on their past, in the same way, we shouldn’t judge someone’s past based on their present.
What does that even mean you ask???
Well it’s simple.
There may be a person you meet now. He has everything you wished for. A nice family, a house, a car(s), a fancy lifestyle. He has got it all together. He lives the way you dream of living.
Now, you have met this person now. Now when he has it all. The way he lives, you could’ve never imagined his life to be something different from this.
And so you assume even his past to be the same, where he had it all.
And because the person never talks about it, you think you’re right.
But based on his present, you cannot judge his past.
Who knows what all he had to go through to be where he is right now.
The difficulties he faced.
The days he survived.
The problems he overcame.
No, we don’t know it and so we assume he had it all easily.
But how wrong is it to belittle his past based on his present.
The past teaches us lessons of life. We are where we are because of it, with all its highs and lows.
So, never judge someone’s past based on their present.
And also, never predict someone’s future based on their present.
That guy we talked who had it all, may lose it all in the future. Or gain double. Who knows!!!
The present neither tells you about the past nor the future.
The three are co- related in some ways and different in some.
We are not the same person we were a few years ago and we will not be the same a few years from now.
So why restrict someone in these boxes?
Why judge someone by these metrics?
So, think and think through before you put a label on someone’s life.
Thank you for reading ☺️
P.S- If you want to read the previous blog with the same name, then click this link https://sarikasundesha.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/past-present-and-future/