Take Another Look

I believe that we should judge people people for what they do in the present not for what they have done in the past, or what they look like. I think we should take another look and find out who they really are. But, I only learned this a couple of ago I used to put labels on people if they looked different I would label them something like thief, evil, or crazy. I would give the, these labels before I even knew them.

Last year my family and I visited New York City. Last year I was pretty critical,  I would judge people by the way they looked and what they wore. When I was in New York I was thinking that I was going to be kidnapped every second. One time I was walking back to my hotel with my mom. walking towards us I saw one of the scariest man I have even seen. He looked like he was straight out of a horror movie. At the perfect time my mom dropped her white purse with her wallet, phone, and my phone all inside, right on the New York concrete. My heart dropped as the scary man reached for the purse. I was so scared that he would run away and we would never see him again. But he picked it up and gave it right back to my mom. Then said, “here you go ma’am.” I was shocked that he gave it back. My mom thought this was just the right thing to do, she knew that not every person who looks scary is bad.

Another time that this theory popped up in my life was when I was at this camp in Missouri. I was put in this cabin with no one I knew most of them looked like nerds. But we were forced to work, sleep, eat together. Through those two long weeks with this cabin I realized that none of them were nerds at all actually I regretted saying that about them. Those were some of my favorite people ever. Even though they all kinda looked like nerds I noticed that they weren’t and appearance doesn’t matter at all.

People in this world may be different they may have done bad things in the past, but that doesn’t mean we can hold a grudge. I believe that we shouldn’t judge people until we have seen what they do in the present. Give that weird kid another chance to be friends with him or be kind to someone who looks different and then you will know.