Too often, we judge people based on our own experiences and principles - forgetting that each man is different. To further portray the absurdity in this approach, consider someone claiming that 200kobo has more value than 5Naira because the former has a larger number attached to it than the later.

It's obvious that the person is not taking into consideration the difference in nature of the Kobo and the Naira. The comparison is based on what the person "sees" about the Kobo and Naira, and not what he knows about them.

Likewise we judge people too quickly without understanding them? How can we review a book we haven't even read?

When Abraham Lincoln's wife once criticized the southern people of America for their actions, Lincoln replied: “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”

If we understand that other people are just reflections of who we would have been if we had gone through similar experiences as they did, we will see the futility in our criticisms.

Benjamin Franklin gave an insight on his tactness on handling people; “I will speak ill of no man,” he said, " . . and speak all the good I know of everybody.”

In his book, How to Win Friends and Influence People(my favorite�), Dale Carnegie opined that "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do".

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them.
( Keywords: 1. Understand, 2. Them.)

Knowing why people do what they do breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.

I will end this with a saying by Dr. Samuel Johnson, the English writer, he said: “ God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.”

Why should you and I?

#OlusolaWrites
Source http://olusolasblog..com.ng/2018/02/too-often-we-judge-people-based-on-our.html?m=1

There are still smart people on NL after all, I have been a proponent of the above, Nice one OP

Marcelo290:
There are still smart people on NL after all, I have been a proponent of the above, Nice one OP

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Thanks sir, I really appreciate your kind words.