What Really Goes Beyond The Scene, WE DON'T KNOW

What Really Goes Beyond The Scene, WE DON'T KNOW

Allow me to quote verbatim this Quora.com post by Mandi Shre:  I was queueing at the gas station and it was taking a long time for the vehicle in front and he overheard the cashier telling the lady driver at the front cashier that her credit card was declined BUT the former insisted that her credit card was fine.  Sensing something, the driver in the next vehicle volunteered to pick the tab for 2 gallons of fuel for the lady's car.  Another driver volunteered to add up another 5 gallons for the lady driver who, upon learning of the unexpected kindness from the 2 strangers, she cried and admitted she just started in her new job and was waiting for her first paycheck.  What Really Goes Beyond The Scene, WE DON'T KNOW📘📙📗

WHEN we hear 'YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT SOMEONE ELSE IS GOING THROUGH' sounds like a mother's well-advised admonition to her children.  YES, I'll admit that a few times in the past, I did blurt it out as well and those words ring true IF we stop a moment to think about it.  And in our fast-paced, busy cultures, we do race past one another, forming immediate judgments WITHOUT pausing to truly understand one another.  Heard of a work colleague WHO caused one fumbling act after another, and later was reprimanded by the boss and was issued an HR disciplinary memo?  DID someone exert efforts to understand that employee's personal circumstances?  Was he/she going through serious personal problems?  About relationships?  Financials? OR did a family member receive a heartbreaking medical diagnosis???

Did you come across these poetic lines yet?

BEFORE YOU JUDGE A MAN, WALK A MAN IN HIS SHOES.  THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS THEY SEEM.  DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.  Translating in layman's terms, judging before seeking to understand is one habit we would do well to break.  I remember WHEN I attended the Stephen Covey course on 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE, we were told how he learned that you never know WHAT someone else is going through.  And Stephen Covey mortified at the prior [wrong] assumption he'd so confidently made about the silent man on the bus and his misbehaving children💧💧💧

Sadly, many of us do err [or probably did err in the past [just like me once OR twice]] WHEN we fail to discover HOW desperate life can seem for some [at a time when your life is everything shining and dandy], HOW hard one can try and things still go wrong, until suffering hits home.  Under its terrible weight, we remember others WHO we were vaguely aware of suffered at one time, BUT we seem to be too busy, too focused on our own point of view [WHICH sometimes is off-track]❌❌❌

Our takeaway:  It's true that for WHATEVER reason, we could NOT see them, nevertheless listen to them.  Life can be painful and we need to learn to see and listen to each other. Remember, life revolves around in circles.  WHEN you're up, there's no way to go BUT down.  And vice-versa.  The most regrettable situation we can cause to stir is WHEN our propensity to prematurely judge people based on assumptions that are founded mostly on 'surface-level' variables of an equation.  On the same breadth, knock on wood, we DON'T want others to prematurely judge us BUT before that happens with our own selves on the receiving end, let us NOT forget that WHAT REALLY GOES BEYOND THE SCENE, we don't know💥💥💥