My “This I believe
essay” on the topic of judging others was inspired by different components and
factors in my life. Some of the thoughts that came along with the inception of
my “this I believe” essay had to do with religion, experiences, literature, and
pop culture. With regards to religion I am a Christian and I believe in the
Bible which is the holy book of my religion and I even refer to it as the word
of God. When I was doing research on this topic I found that judgment is
actually a reoccurring topic in the Bible and there are many verses pertaining
to the subject. One of the series of verses that I found was Matthew 7: 1-5
which states: “Do not judge, or you too
will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others,
you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why
do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention
to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your
brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a
plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the
plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck
from your brother’s eye (NIV).” What this means to me is that we shouldn’t judge others until we
completely judged ourselves and we are content with ourselves and I tried to
reflect this belief of mine in my essay. Another segment of the Bible that
inspired me and my beliefs is John 7: 24 which states: “Stop judging by mere appearances, but
instead judge correctly (NIV).” I also tried to put this idea in my essay
when I stated that we shouldn’t be quick to judge and at least get to know the
person or their situation before judging them.
An experience that inspired my
belief and essay was my experience back in summer camp when I was younger. I
went to summer camp back then in an area outside my town so I only knew 2 other
people from my neighborhood who were also enrolled in the same one. For the
first few days we only associated with each other because we were the only
people that we knew and we didn’t really try to make new friends. There was
another kid who always seemed angry and who was always by himself and me and my
2 friends just assumed he was a person who we wouldn’t like or wouldn’t want to
associate with. This was the case until one day when we finally introduced
ourselves to him and invited him to play basketball with us. This was a good
thing because he ended up becoming the 4th musketeer of our group
and became a very close friend of ours for the next two years at the camp. This
experience too, played a part in my choosing of this topic and the writing of
my essay. One phrase that played a role in my choosing of my essay and this
topic was the English idiom “don’t judge a book by its cover”. When I looked up
this Idiom on Dictionary.com the phrase was defined as: “Don't judge the value
of a thing simply by its appearance.” Once again this is one of the aspects
that are rooted in my beliefs and the creation of my essay. An example of an
example in pop culture that inspired my writing of this Essay was a music video
by one of my favorite rappers entitled “The Age of Information”. In this video
he speaks about his ideas about the progression of the human race and
especially judgment through social media. There were many things in that video that
made me think about this topic and made me write my essay on it.
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