Before You Say A Thing...

In relation to my previous post, I do know some people who might shake their heads upon reading it and possibly say that that is a very shallow thing to say.

This is what I mean when I said "possibly elitist" by the way.

People who pride themselves with their intelligence commonly share a taste for the thought-provoking and the "tasteful" materials. And that is all fine and good.

But it rather disgusts me that if I do not share that taste, then I am "shallow".

Yes, it is intelligent writing. It is clever. Thought-provoking, real heavy stuff, I get it. But it is also freakishly depressing and if that is distasteful to me, I should be able to say it without garnering judgements from the "intelligent" people about my depth of thought.

Wake up people. How deep do you think you are, making judgements such as that? I get it, you're smart, you're intelligent. But what is the point if at the end of the day you turn up your noses at others just like the "shallow" people you disdain?

My tastes should not be the only determining factor of my depth of thought. And in a sense, who are we to judge "depth of thought" and who are we to claim to know better anyway? I get it, judgements like these are passed and made everyday. I make them too. I watch it, but I do make them. It's inevitable. Part of being human actually. But I do take notice. Do you?

Sugar is a genuinely non-judgemental person. She REALLY doesn't judge. She harbours no thoughts of whether a person is deep or shallow, smart or dumb, etc. She sees the best in people and she's really one of the purest souls I've ever met.

Now she may be no philosopher (then again how many of us really are?), but she got one thing right that many other "intelligent" people just always seem to get wrong. She looks at the world through very accepting eyes. Something that a lot of us just can't seem to do well enough.

So now, we have a very interesting question on our hands. What do we do? What's the right to do? Never judge anyone ever? *snorts* Right. Impossible. If that were the case there will be no such thing as opinions. The alternative, on the other hand, is also bad for the obvious reasons. So now what? What would you do?

God, I hate circular arguments. They go nowhere. Lots of debating later, and you end up right back where you started. At square one. Because it's probably the only square that exists in these cases anyhow. Now I know why they say that nobody's perfect. You just can't win. There's no perfect balance. And even if there was, I'd really like to meet that someone who actually gets it all right all the time.