Meditations on God

Every time you focus on someone else’s shortcomings, you miss an opportunity to work on your own.

No one is perfect.

Every one is extremely, perhaps tragically, flawed.

You are no exception.

And no matter how hard you try, you will never be perfect.

Regardless of how much you work on yourself, you will always come up short in some way.

This is as true for you as it is for everyone else.

The time and energy you spend focusing on someone else’s mistakes, flaws, and shortcomings is time and energy you will never get back.

It is also time and energy spent not working on yourself, trying to improve upon your mistakes, flaws, and shortcomings.

Of course, you should be helpful wherever and whenever possible, but there is a big difference between being helpful and being unnecessarily critical or judgmental.

Next time you feel tempted to point out where someone else is wrong, ask yourself if your time and energy would be more wisely used working on yourself.