Jul 16
I saw a quote that said, "How can we judge people for their choices when we knew nothing about their options?" It stayed in my mind for a while, because from the outside, it's always easy to point at someone's life and say they chose wrong. We look at the outcome, the mistake, and the mess, and we think we'd have done better. But what we don't see are the closed doors they stood in front of—the pressure, the fear, and the limited choices they had at the time. Sometimes what looks like a bad decision to us was the only door they could open. Judgment is easy when we only see the ending. Compassion starts when we stop and wonder what choices someone actually had.
