Do Not Judge People By Their Momentary Actions

I'd looked at some things, have studied them critically and came to the conclusion that when looking at individuals and trying to adjudge them for what they are, one consideration should be salient. The habit of someone's action is quite different from their character as a person.

Sometimes what we do, the things we say and how we posit them seem to send a signal that impulse people to have a rather erroneous general view of who we are. It is to say that some people's yardstick of describing a person is on a particular action the individual does, which at the time may be cool or displeasing to them.

This instantaneous show of attitude engraves on the viewer's mind the kind of personality he sees his object to be. Even as not entirely wrong this chip of the ice may be indicative of the iceberg, it would be a largely erroneous, very unfair analysis to lump in someone into a character or personality just because of a particular action he's shown.

As humans, we grow along with situations even as we react differently to specific scenarios. But our direct responses to particular situations that stir our reactions do not, most times, correctly depict who we are. For instance, a largely happy person might be provoked to a rousing anger and just at the time you're meeting. You might hastily pass him off as choleric, but then you would hugely be wrong.

This is to say, you do not get to know someone as to characterize him in a moment. His reactions at those moments might just be instantaneous and thus not the picture of his true character.

To know a person, one needs to have stayed considerably long with him, critically studied him and observed him to know those of his actions and dispositions that are indeed habitual with him and to a great extent, define his character, his person.

As such, we must bear this in mind- in our interactions and relationships with people- to be patient, cautious and very well accommodating. We must always try to give people the benefits of the doubt.

This is so necessary as to rid us of the penchant to unjustly and hastily generalize. It would also save us the gravity of having to wrongly lump in people just because of some certain reactions, which to them could be new and alien, but which because of life's vagaries, they can't control and so assert.

In the end, the crux of the call is: Do not generalize a person's habit of an action as his character as a person. It would be a wrongful, for such may be bad in the particular action yet largely good in the many others that could creditably define them.