Over Exposed Yet Never Understood

// Funny how, as humans, we tend to hear one story and link that single story to the entirety of another person. During our lifetime, we will never know the entirety of someone else. We will never know every second that they live, every trial they face, every thought they think. So why is it that we are so quick to judge others and categorize them according to, perhaps, this single story once heard about them?  The only person we can ever fully come to understand and know completely is ourselves, and, unfortunately, some people even miss out on that opportunity. People can talk and talk about one single person, and they can label them by one single story, people can pretend that they know everything about someone else, but in reality, we all live a somewhat secret life, we all have our own individual worlds with unique experiences, people, perspectives, and thoughts. We're all still human beings, that's true, yet we often compare our complete knowledge about ourselves to the partial knowledge about someone else. Sometime we think of ourselves having the hardest life, the best justification to be mad, the busiest life, the superlative-est in every situation-- we forget that others have their own story too.

//A car cut me off. Don't they know that I just had the worst day ever and I'm running late and I feel sick and my grandma just passed away and my car is broken and I have a ton of homework and THEY ARE MAKING MY DAY THAT MUCH HARDER?! No, they don't know. And maybe they had a really rough day too. Maybe they had to cut in front of me because their wife was in labor and they were rushing her to the hospital or something. We don't know anyone's full story.

//My number one pet peeve is gossiping. Gossiping does no one any good and all you're doing is taking a partial segment of someone's story and using it to define them. That is not fair. Think of how much better this world would be if we put aside all the prejudices, judgements, and rumors and just accepted people for who they are and tried to see things from their perspective.

//I finally had the privilege to adventure with the sweetest girl in the world today. Her name is Katie Taylor, sometimes she goes by KT which is pretty clever if you ask me. I only hear compliments come out of her mouth. She never puts anyone down and to me that is amazing. Not only that, but she doesn't let what other people say about her affect her. She is beautiful, kind, sincere, caring, outgoing, adventurous, talented, and so much more. I hope I have the privilege to get to know more of her story, cause it inspires me. If I have learned one thing from her, from the way she lives her life, it's this:
live in a way that if someone was to talk bad about you, no one would believe it. 
(Also, KT gets photo credit for the picture above.)