I wrote an article a couple weeks ago about Coexisting.

There were some grammar issues and I’m not sure the message quite got across to as many people as I hoped it would, but it's something that must be understood especially this week.

This past week we lost seven human lives.

Seven undeserving human lives were taken.

I want you to just take a moment and think about those who had the gun in their hands. Do they have family? Yes, of course. Are they wearing clothes? Do they use the bathroom? Have they felt love? Do they have two hands?

Of course it’s wrong to kill. There is no argument against that statement. It is also wrong to steal, lie, cheat, hurt, and hit. If you believe in God, he has made it clear all sins are equal.

Yet we as a species decide what sin is greater than another.

Judgement is the worst sin of them all. It’s what places heartache and pain on top. It begins the downfall of the other species. As humans, the first time we meet another person, a thought goes through our head. Whether it is good or bad, it's judgement. Maybe a preconceived one from others talking about them. Maybe we stalked them on Instagram an hour before. Maybe we really love their shirt and know it’s from Urban Outfitters so we assume they have to have some extra money. Maybe we judge them because they’re black or Hispanic or they’re wearing a rainbow pin.

Either way. No matter what the thought is, It’s a judgement. A split second of our brain processes another person subconcsiouly and sometimes we are more likely to treat them a certain way because of it.

Is that right? Well since it’s basic human nature, it doesn’t matter if it’s right.

It’s what we do with that judgment that really matters. We can push it to the side and decide this person is decent, or we can do the opposite.

Either way the decision is yours. You can tell someone to go to hell for making a mistake, such as getting drunk and kissing your boyfriend. Yet, can I ask you what you did last October at that Halloween party?

You’re judging them for a mistake, you once made. You don’t need to tell me how screwed up that is, I already know. Do you?

So let’s talk about this week. Judgement calls were made. People died. People were murdered. There were protests. More people died. More people were killed. Humans lost their life this week based on judgement calls.

We as humans are need to support those making the judgement calls, and those on the other side of it.

You probably think I’m crazy or not. Here’s the thing. We live in a world where everyday people are murdered and killed. We live in a world where people are murdering and killing.

We need to HELP both sides. Both sides are human.

How can we as a community improve if we start killing others? How can we improve if we throw people in jail? How can we as a species thrive if we hurt another?

“An Eye for an Eye makes the Whole World Blind”

I’m not saying it’s not wrong. What I’m saying is, we need to stop thinking that by just throwing people in jail or having them killed is the right answer.

The world is filled sadness and heartache. It will keep occurring until we decide to start helping. These judgement calls will happen no matter what.

It’s what we do with the judgement that matters. It’s what we do when a thought slips across our mind about another person. Whether it’s, “Omg he has a gun” or it’s “I think this is the guy who cheated on my best friend’s sister.”

We have a choice. We’re human. We the freedom to decide how to move forward. When someone is killed we have the ability to choose how to respond. I may not have been at the Dallas protests or in Louisiana. I may not be part of the black community. I may not be a cop. Yet, what I do know is that as a human being, we all deserve love and respect and kindness and compassion. We also need to spread this to others.

When someone is in jail, we shouldn’t let them rot. Instead we should try to help them so they can be seen as humans. They are humans.

Judgement needs to stop. Compassion, now that's a word we need to encompass.