DOUBT

Doubt

 

 

I know why we doubt.

 

 

Firstly what is doubt? According to Wikipedia doubt is a status between belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty or distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision. Doubt brings into question some notion of a perceived “reality”, and may involve delaying or rejecting relevant action out of concerns for mistakes or faults or appropriateness. Some definitions of doubt emphasize the state in which the mind remains suspended between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them.

 

So why do we doubt? I think we doubt because we have placed an enormous amount of faith in a person and seeing or hearing one small piece of information, however true or untrue it is, we start to suddenly see that they aren’t as great as we thought them to be.

 

Now this is not the person’s fault, but our own. We have placed them on a pedestal and carved them out to be what we want them to be. We initially saw all their imperfections and accepted it, but over time, the small things they do make them seem otherworldly to us and we begin to place them on a high pedestal. Slowly, slowly, the mistakes creep in and we begin to question them, but only to ourselves and others, never the person that truly matters. So we doubt and make speculations and assumptions about a person that we once thought to be godly.

 

We start to see the cracks in what we made out to be perfection, not realizing that there is no such a thing as perfection. If there was, girls would be all over trying to be it!

 

So we doubt, we doubt this person and we suddenly start to think the lowest of them and then slowly the relationships starts to deteriorate. The small fights start, the trust fades and then slowly lies are told all because we never thought to just ask. We believe the doubts that we created and just accepted it without once thinking to ask if it was true.

 

 

So today, I figured out why we doubt! We doubt because we make people to be our own ideas of perfection, then the minute they don’t live up to it, we doubt them.  We never want to believe the worse of them because we only recognized and flourish their great side, never once do we flourish their bad side.

 

The fault lies in us.

 

So until next time, don’t make people to be godly, accept that they aren’t as great we think they are. Just as accept them as they are, bad side, tempers and heavy snoring including!

 

Ciao

 

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