By Shawaz Lodhi
We normally like to believe that what we know about stuff is absolute and our knowledge and understanding of things is beyond doubts. I mean its common observation that we don’t like others to challenge what we say. There’s a certain ego factor which forbids us to believe that we’re wrong.
Our brain creates this illusion that our understanding of something is fundamental. Whenever something challenges our understanding, we often term it to be profound. Hence, our brain would rather come up with a totally random, mostly fake, explanation instead of admitting it is wrong or doesn’t know about something. Take, for example, when we walk across a random person on the street, we are usually as quick as possible to judge what kind of person he or she is depending on multiple factors, how delusional wouldn’t you say? At least considering that they have absolutely nothing to do with you. You know nothing about them yet, you make yourself believe they’re a specific type of person, going above remaining relevant to your influence on each other, making fallacious perceptions. When you think about it, it’s extremely common. Why do we judge someone or something whilst knowing nothing about them, neither having influence on us?
We’ve all heard that saying, “Never judge a book by its cover”. We know it’s true and we’re mostly wrong, yet we never cease to do so. Like in most cases, we know nothing about something when it starts to trend on social media, but we’re never behind giving our “opinions” on matters.
How about the recent Umair Jaswal or the Komal Rizvi controversies. How many of us knew what actually happened on the scene and how many were opinionated about it? Think about the paradox theories, one of them may be just as true as yours. Can we blame someone for being passionate and enjoying what he’s doing or a girl that may have wanted to cherish the moments or trying to cheer a legend lying in a hospital up? I mean would it be better if she went there and started to mourn about his ailment? It may sound weird but the point I’m trying to make is who are we to judge? Not just about people, about everything. From someone’s art to someone’s work, from his mustache, to her makeup.
It’s only natural be judgmental and there’s not much point in staying quiet about something, people ask your opinion about things relevant to you anyway, but this sort of stuff induces us to be reactive rather than active or proactive, causing groundless biasing.
There’s a slight barrier that lies between judgment and opinion. Being gentle and investigating before doing so would be preferred as opinion instead of condescending judgments, remaining within your boundaries and fields of specialization. If you would rather judge in general still, go ahead, but make sure you remain perfect for the rest of your life.
About Author:
Author is student of of Mechanical engineering from college of E&ME, NUST. He was selected for RWP U-19 cricket team in 2014. He had also played leading role in a 45 min drama that aired on PTV in 2007. His is multi-talented young boy and his areas of interest include: Sports, Cricket, Space and time, Songs, Movies, Reviews, Writing Poems, Short Articles and Brainy Quotes. Give your feedback in comments.