Living Rarefied

What a world it would be if instead of making fun of people who aren't like us, or judging them because of their differences, we would pray for them, engage them.. Or for starters just not even let those negative thoughts enter your head.

Friday I saw a movie with Kevin and Gennae, it was an early movie, Syriana. The theater wasn't too full, but the odd thing was that everybody gathered around us. In the row in front, behind and our row. There was 1 seat open next to Gennae, and a guy walked in by himself and saw the seat. I heard him exclaim with joy, "alright a seat right in the center of the theater!"

So he wedged between our group and the group next to us, akwardly close. Started commenting about the size of our popcorn, and saying how he was so surprised at the difference between a medium and a large. How he thought mediums would be bigger.

I was annoyed, I mean who was this guy to come interrupt our time in the theater and make it uncomfortable next to us.

Halfway through the movie I couldn't get this guy out of my head, because I started thinking. Its the holidays, he's at a movie by himself. I thought of my family at home I was going to see later that night. The friends I was with, the friends I was meeting later. and thought to myself maybe he doesn't have that. And I may have just cut down what he does have. Maybe going to the movies and talking to people is the only interaction he has with people.

My new equation for judging is this… In order to judge somebody, you need to know every possible detail about them. Otherwise any assumption/judgement isn't valid. Because there is information missing you can never be sure. I could be off about this guy. He could be like me on Good Friday last year when I went to a movie myself. It didn't mean I had no life/friends/family. It didn't mean I am odd. I am oddfor other reasons. And since we cannot know everything about somebody. Even though we may know a lot about somebody, we will never know everything. Therefore the judgment is reserved for the one who knows everything about us. Our Father in Heaven.

Ethan Daily, Struggles