Are you a person of assumptions? Do you
believe that everything you are fed by the media (and the internet) is 100%
true? Think again. Do you suppose people are a certain way based on their
outward appearance or actions? Do you make judgments on books, movies, or blogs
(websites) before you have fully investigated them?
I heard a great quote (with unknown
origins) when I was a teenager. I’ve never forgot it. I wish to retell it now to
you. Here it goes, “When you assume, you make an ass of u and me.” How inspired.
What miracle would it take for you not
to draw a conclusion until you have all the needed evidence? It’s confession
time because I am preaching at myself. Very often I make assumptions about a
variety of people not really caring how my opinion could affect these people if
they only knew. (God is good to never allow them to know my feelings.)
I believe unfair ideas about people are
formed due to our own personal insecurities, thinking a whole race (or sex) is
a certain way based on ill treatment by one member of that group, or even pain
(emotional or physical) can mess up our opinions. The next time you get ready
to make an assumption; don’t be the “donkey” part of the above quote.
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