As those of you have been into this blog for a bit, you will already know, sometimes in the late night, I like to sit back with a glass of the grape and let the algorithm on YouTube run me around the various forms of music videos, in the style of music, I like.
 
I don’t really know why, but one night, a little while back, up pops this young female pop singer, crooning in German. It was good stuff. Very dance/poppy. I mean, I’m usually more interested in watching music videos based in Goth and Dark Wave. But…
 
Anyway, the algorithm took hold and a few of her videos came through. And, in some of them she and her girlfriends are smoking. PS: She apparently hails from Berlin. A city that I love. But, a city where I cannot place in my mind any other location on the globe where I have witnessed more people smoking. I mean it’s everybody, everywhere, all the time. 

…I’ve spoken about that in a blog a little while back.
 
The singer, she’s obviously gay, as all of her interests and castmates are also young attractive woman. All good! Smoking and gay. None of my business. But, by placing her truths in front of my eyes, it has, at least, allowed me to view the world in which she dwells.
 
You know, I forever find it interesting how people like to attach their definitions, their judgments, their ideas, their dogma, their condescending misunderstandings of another person’s reality onto them and evaluate, and maybe even condemn them, from a perspective of their own mind. Do you do that?  
 
But, here’s the thing, you can love or you can hate what someone else is doing. You can like it or not. It can make you happy or it can make you sad. But, the one thing you will never understand is the truth that exists in that other individual’s being. You will never truly know who they are or why they do what they do. Do you understand that? Or, do you just cast your blanket judgment?
 
From a personal perspective, (a expression I seem to be using a lot of late), like I have long said, “They’re the ones talking about me, I’m not the one talking about them.” Since the moment I started creating or teaching or whatevering, people have been throwing the condemnations my direction. Yes, some have also loved what I’ve done. Great! Thank you! It just seems that those who base their life in negativity and being judgmental are the most vocal.

But, here’s a question for you, is there any less judgement in loving verses hating?
 
How about you? Do you do that? How about you? Has that been done to you?
 
I think we all can learn from this. I believe we all can dive deeper into our own psyche and perhaps discover a deeper truth within ourselves.  
 
What do you like? Why do you like it? What do you dislike? Why do you dislike it? And, can you be pure enough within yourself—can you be a pure enough being to allow all people to simply be whom they are, whom they want to be? Or, do you have to gain your strength by deciding and declaring who is right, what is wrong, and that you are the judge and jury and have the need to cast your judgement onto the what you see outside of yourself?
 
Next time you are about to express your judgement about any other individual, ask yourself, do you truly known anything about the inner workings of their being or are you just another person who is not mindful enough to allow all people to be who and what they are, thus expressing their own unique truth to the world in the way that they most positively can?