Assumptions..

..can be dangerous

I am not quite sure if this is relevant to the bible, but this thought has been bothering me for a while now, so I thought I’d post it up.

So as I said, assumptions can be very dangerous. It might be the quick and easy way out to explaining things to yourself, but it can have really big consequences, especially from a social aspect.

So let's have an example: you see this boy playing piano. You see that he tries really hard. You can even get the sense that he is showing off by moving his body around when he plays. You are sitting in the audience. You then develop a dislike inside your mind for that person for showing off. You keep hearing in your head things like: "man, this guy! Won’t stop moving his body!..won't keep his head under control,.. he's so dam cocky.. etc. etc." later however, you find out that this person was autistic, and that was the only song he knew how to play, and as for the way he played; (keeping on moving his body around) it was due to his disability.

Have you ever done something like that? It may not be exactly about an autistic boy playing piano, but something along the lines of assuming something else in your head about someone, but realising that you were completely wrong. I can tell you for sure right now, that I have done this many times! And if you haven’t, then well maybe I chose the wrong topic to post up today.
So assumptions can be dangerous. You could hate someone for the wrong reasons! We are not here to judge people, their actions, their lifestyles. God does the judging. For according to what I believe in: Christianity, God judges us when whether we are or not worthy to live an eternal life in heaven. Because God judges us up there, whatever we judge on earth is then useless! In the end it’s up to God.

It is interesting however because it is natural to judge people. From the very first minute you meet someone whether they be a stranger or not, you will form some of judgments and assumptions in your head about that person. In psychology I learnt that when you meet someone new, like in an interview or something, almost 80% of a person’s character is judged upon the first 4 minutes of meeting them. That’s huge.

So how do we deal with this then? Assumptions and judgments can be dangerous because they can lead to many different things. Things like hating someone for the wrong reason, talking to someone with the wrong tone of voice, changing the whole ‘mood’ of the room that you are in, it can affect others! Some people would go way far just because of assumptions. People get bashed, people get assaulted, people get.. (insert word here) just because people thought wrongly about someone. Homophobic people could wrongly accuse a guy for being homo, and bashing the heck out of him. Assumptions can get very dangerous!

But I am sure that you are not going to bash someone just because you thought they were…whatever.

So how we deal with it is to just live with it! Keep it inside you. Don’t express your hate for someone just cos of this or that, keep it inside your head. If your head becomes too full, like you’ve had enough of this person or something, then go talk to someone about it. Just don’t rage it out!

You don’t their full story so don’t assume their full story. Only God does.

just wanna say: i am definitely guilty for getting frustrated at people alot

Orright, this was probably the most weirdest post I have written :/

God bless

WL