Prejudice.

There's a certain pleasure in making an ultimate and final judgement on another person. It's why we love to hate Paris Hilton. We love to believe that she'll always be dumb, and she'll always be rich, and she'll always be blonde. And since it's wrong to openly judge "real" people, we judge celebrities instead because we don't have to think of them as real.

We've all been guilty of reducing someone to a 2-dimensional character. But each time I've done this, each time I've thought I've read a person right, they do something to surprise me entirely, something human and good. And I realize I can't judge a person entirely for one thing they said or one thing they did. Everyone is a work in progress, everyone is a flowing river that never stays the same.

People choose their actions based on what they believe is right, at a given time, and depending on what they've experienced up to that point. New experiences will come after that, and the person will change, whether it is visible to you, to me or not.



The tongue of the wise
useth knowledge aright
but the mouth of fools
poureth out foolishness.
PROVERBS 15:2