What happened to Susan Boyle was a painful picture of how judgmental people can become. Human as we are, we can’t help but measure an individual’s worth by simply looking at his personal assets. It may sound sinister but it’s a truth that we can no longer pretend to ignore. We were born with a natural inclination to scrutinize, criticize, evaluate, assess, compare, and compete. These natural tendencies weren’t actually wrong in themselves per se. It’s a matter of how we use these things in our daily lives.
The oft-quoted saying “There’s more to a person than what meets the eye” is tagged as old-fashioned and even as an overused cliché. However, there’s a big chunk of truth in it. Too often we label people in just a fraction of a second basing from what we see. We survey people from head to toe and from what we see, we draw conclusions as to whether this person is worth our time and attention. The ugly thing about this is we misjudge people most of the time. We assume things. The dangerous part comes when we act in accordance to what we think. Once our thoughts are poisoned with presumptions that are far from the truth, it will begin to distort reality. It would then give birth to conflicts and chaos.
Do you know why Titanic sank as early as its maiden voyage? It’s because the captain underestimated the size of the iceberg. He saw the iceberg only as a small piece of ice floating harmlessly in the midst of the ocean. To him, its size is nothing compared to his huge ship that ‘even God cannot sink’. Superficial people think superficially. They fail to look beyond the surface and discover that there’s something more than what they see externally. When the collision happened, they were caught off-guard. Lives were lost. See how dangerous underestimation can be?
I hope people will learn from all of these. Behind these varied circumstances, there’s a small, obsolete, too-often-for-granted piece of lesson. Nobody has the right to judge others harshly and impulsively.
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