Give others the benefit of the doubt

• As humans, we all over expect things from others. So it’s better to be in another person’s shoes when observing their actions and be accommodating with our assumptions about them. It’ll eventually make us more tolerant and our life much easier.

• Understand that our beliefs about people create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because we interact with prejudice, our actions around them change, and we thus make our expectations from them a reality. Our hasty judgments might make the situation more complicated and not help anyone.

• Think like “it might have been an accident,” OR “he/she didn’t know,” OR “it won’t happen again.” Empathize with them, and be sensitive to them and experience their feelings and thoughts. Moreover, cutting them some slack might teach you to forgive yourself for your own mistakes.

But that’s just my take. Comment and share yours.