sometimes i think we are too quick in judging people or even our own life just by one moment. like seriously, one small moment and the whole story changes in our head.
yesterday i was just sitting somewhere randomly. nothing special. there was a guy working on a laptop nearby and his tea spilled a little on the table. and someone behind just said this guy is so careless, probably useless in work too.
and i dont know why but that line stayed in my head more than it should.
like how can one spilled tea decide anything about a whole person. maybe he was tired. maybe he had a long day. maybe he just placed the cup at a wrong angle. it was such a small thing but people do that all the time. even me sometimes.
we dont see the whole journey. we just catch one frame like a broken photo and start building a story around it.
same thing happens in life also. like someone is quiet one day and we think maybe they are rude or not friendly. but we dont see what happened before that moment or what kind of thoughts they are carrying.
not sure why i thought that but it keeps coming back.
i remember in class once the teacher asked a question and i gave the wrong answer and some students laughed a bit. and for that whole week i felt like maybe i am just bad at this subject even though i was fine before that.
funny how one moment can tilt everything in your mind.
journeys are long but we dont respect long things much. we like fast judgment. it feels easier like shortcut thinking.
even social media does the same thing. people see one post one clip and decide everything about a person or situation.
anyway i was thinking maybe we should just slow down a bit. but then again life is fast so maybe we forget easily.
dont know if that makes sense.
but yeah moments are just moments, not the full story. still we treat them like final answers sometimes and then move on like it was truth all along.
and i was just there finishing my drink watching that same guy typing again like nothing happened. and i kept thinking maybe nobody even remembers that spilled tea except me. and maybe that itself is a weird thought, but it stayed a little longer than it should.