Who are you to judge?

"If you judge people you have no time to love them" - Mother Teresa 

An article popped up online Saturday in my local newspaper about two teen girls that died in a car accident literally blocks away from where the North Shore WAC is located. They were 15 year old girls that were driving together at 2am and when a police officer went to pull them over for a broken headlight they took off and wound up crashing a short time later. What would be your first response to hearing that two 15 year old girls tragically died in a car accident? (you can read the article here if you would like)

As I read the article and scrolled to the bottom where the comments were I was shocked to read that the first handful of comments were all filled with hurtful judging. Not hurtful for me, but for the families and friends of the girls involved in the accident. (the comments are no longer on the article from what I've seen, maybe due to the heated arguments)

Yes, these girls should not have been out at 2am driving together on just a learner's permit, but to show no remorse and instead attack the parents of these girls for not being good parents and keeping a better watch on them and comment about alcohol, etc is inexcusable. The story just broke and there were no details except the story above. Being who I am, I came to their defense and commented back on every one of the negative comments (and through the power of Facebook was able to find out none of the people with negative comments had children...imagine that). How awful would it be for those parents to come across this article and read those comments? (and due to the power of social media many friends and some family did unfortunately come across the hurtful comments)

Details later unfolded that alcohol was not a factor and the mother of the girl that was driving was out of town with no idea of what happened. 

Who are we to judge people? Are we so perfect and without fault that we have the right to look down upon others? Let thee who is without sin cast the first stone...there's a reason nobody threw the first stone. 

Judging others is a bad habit that fills the mind and heart with negativity. When the mind and heart contain negativity there's less room for the positive. If you wish to be truly positive you have to rid yourself of the nasty habit of judging. Try, in all situations, to see the good in people. This takes practice, but if you find yourself judging or talking bad about someone, catch it and end it right then and there. If you aren't careful to pull the weeds out of the flower bed, soon the weeds will overtake the flowers and you're left with a bed of weeds. 

Have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy the time with your family