I was sitting with my head back, hands clasped around my knees, looking up at the stars. My eyes would slowly close and then open again as I floated between worlds, in and out of meditation. 

I was reflecting on a conversation that I had had the day before. In that conversation, I recognized that with almost every interaction with another person I am looking at them from a zoomed out view. I am constantly asking myself “what is the root cause of the way that this person is behaving?”. I simply assumed that everyone was curious like this. That everyone met each human who they engage with, with a level of curiosity about their journey and path in life. In the conversation, it was mirrored back to me that this is one of the things that makes me unique. Not special, unique. This is not good or bad, it just is a part of me and a part of me that is different from other people. 

My meditation led me down the road of deeper understanding within myself. Am I being judgemental? By constantly observing people and how they meet their reality, am I being judgemental. I asked the question, completely open to facing whatever the response would be.

I head back with extreme clarity “Judgment is when you attach value to the observation”. I sat with the statement for a while and felt into it. It felt true to me, it felt accurate to me.

“The real question to ask yourself is when do you attach value to the things that you observe and why”.