Pathetico Ridiculum! (spell to ward such things off... hope it works)

Sometimes it’s so astonishing to observe how people can be so damn judgmental at times. An aunt of mine was reading the morning paper and she came across this picture of a home that had a caption which said something like – look beyond the home and delve into comfort – or something like that and she found it less of a house than a ‘museum’. So she very bluntly makes this remark about ‘how can someone call this kind of a décor, practical, silly oafs of the modern day…’ etc.

Why, I ask, is it so important for us to know and react to someone’s subjective likings? Is it so crucial to make an ‘I-know-it-all-and-u-never-will’ comment on every issue? What I realize is that a lot of us do it without knowing why we did so. Then it is forgotten. You see a man crossing the road in a peculiar manner and you shoot your mouth off, ‘what an ass, he’ll die if he walks this way’. You see a fellow sitting on the footpath and your mind starts making note of how stupid the man looks on the road… the fellow by the way is a college going good looking individual, not just any man. We want to judge the world at the drop of a hat. It’s really quite a mystery to me, as in, why should not a person, sit back and rethink a judgment before he makes one or at least before he vocalizes one. After the judgment becomes vocal one will put everything on the line for justifying one’s point, even after realizing that he had wrongly judged whatever he voiced last.

Actually, it brings me to a parallel thought. If a lot of us do this (and I for sure, don’t) then we are all a subject to such judgments ourselves, right? Which means we are also conscious of everything we do and don’t do just so as to be or not be judged? Things like first impressions and obnoxiously nauseating amounts of decency some people show in their first acquaintances is quite a favorite to many. I personally feel that observing vis-à-vis judging is so much more fun and politically correct. Plus, it saves you a lot of trouble when you don’t talk about someone else doing something weird for some unknown reasons. Just see that last statement. No parameter in judgment-making is a constant. In fact, more than variable, they’re unknown. We all might want to agree on one thing I suppose, most of the time, all that we have judged often changes its course. And then we change our views. Recall, how many times we have heard statements made by old pals which start with “You know, the first time I saw you, I thought….”.

I just went through the above and I realized, I sound like Dale Carnegie or someone… sheesh!