I Accept People As They Are
Or do I simply wish I did?
No matter how hard we try not to judge, or how hard we try to accept people as they are, there will always be a small part of us that continues to resist, that will judge and try to change others. The most we can do is acknowledge that part in order to fight it. It takes time and effort to become less judgmental. It's a constant battle against a natural inclination we have to judge what is different, foreign. It is even harder to accept weakness in others, to accept that error is human, that we all yield to temptation, no one in infallible.
When I say I accept others as they are, it would actually be more honest to say I can either accept you as you are and we will become friends, or what you are is too foreign to my own set of values and I will walk away from you, but I will refrain from judging.
No matter how hard we try not to judge, or how hard we try to accept people as they are, there will always be a small part of us that continues to resist, that will judge and try to change others. The most we can do is acknowledge that part in order to fight it. It takes time and effort to become less judgmental. It's a constant battle against a natural inclination we have to judge what is different, foreign. It is even harder to accept weakness in others, to accept that error is human, that we all yield to temptation, no one in infallible.
When I say I accept others as they are, it would actually be more honest to say I can either accept you as you are and we will become friends, or what you are is too foreign to my own set of values and I will walk away from you, but I will refrain from judging.
