Is There Any Such Thing as a Judgement-Free World?

Who makes assumptions? The answer, simply stated, is everyone. I’ve never met a single person who doesn’t make assumptions and I doubt I will meet someone like that in the future. Whether we know it or not, we judge everything. I am a dedicated victim to this vice. I find that quite often I judge everything and everyone around me. Just like the piece we read this week, “There is No Unmarked Woman”, I wonder is there any human who is unmarked? Unmarked of judgement? Why do I, along with everyone else, feel the need to judge?

To attempt to answer this question, I delved into my most recent victims. Most recently, it was the attendees at the snowcoming dance. I looked around and wondered so many times, why would she wear those heels or why is he not more dressed up? In the moment, it felt natural. I didn’t even think twice about it. Now that I look back on it, I feel horrible. People should be free to wear or do whatever they want. But what was this natural instinct inside me that caused me to judge them? While trying to answer it to the best of my ability, I found that it might be our own insecurities that drive our careless judgements. Did I like my makeup at the dance? Not really. Was someone else unhappy with their dress? Probably. Our own insecurities make us feel inferior and to make that inferiority go away and replace it with superiority, we judge. I don’t know if we will ever live in a judgement-free world, but the best thing we can do until we learn is to embrace our judgements. Embrace them and turn them into positive thoughts. I may have not liked my makeup, but I loved my earrings. Until we figure out to be judgement-free, and I don’t know if we ever will, we must simply spin the judgements in our favor.