Don’t Look Down On Anyone, Don’t Look Up To Anyone

Notes on a peculiar statement.

Don’t look down on anyone, don’t look up to anyone.

This statement floated by me at some point last week, I can’t recall who said it, or where I read it, but it struck a chord.

The mind is very good at casting judgement—at anyone and anything. For no reason at all, a person will saunter by and your mind will have something to say about the shirt they chose to put on, or the mustache they decided to grow. This fellow earthling did nothing but walk past you and your mind decided it needed to comment on their appearance. But their mustache is none of your business. We climb all over decisions our friends and family make, we ridicule ourselves for the smallest of errors—we cast judgement from the brain box like the Red Queen of Wonderland.