The Window

by Author Unknown

A young couple moves into the neighbourhood. The next morning, while they were eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbour hanging her wash outside.

That laundry is not very clean, she said, she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Is there such a thing as ‘washing correctly’???

Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time the neighbour would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this.

The husband said: I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows. My gut feeling tells me that the wife must be a dumb blonde, don’t ask me how I know, I just do.

And so it is with life:

What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge.

Sometimes we have this negative perception about a certain person and so every tiny mistake that he/she makes, we just use them as an excuse to further re-emphasize that we were indeed right about this person in the first instance.

Perhaps all we wanted was to make ourselves feel better, at the expense of somebody else's feelings.

Always bear in mind that nobody is perfect, including you and I.