Bouncing on Words

I can pinpoint times in my life when I have acted like a hypocrite. I put meaning into other people’s actions, jumping into conclusions that were way off tangent, without once validating my suspicions. I’ve learns that this was not only a cowardly way of dealing with problems, it was also a non-loving thing to do. In doing so, I was using an inaccurate measure to check the breadth, height or depth of the other’s values and capacities. In the end, I wasn’t harming the other. Instead, I was harming only myself, as the same measure I applied to others would also be applied to me.