Understanding, Kindness, and Open-Mindedness: My Life Philosophy

For this paper I will be addressing my personal philosophy, what is most important about it and how I try to apply it in everyday life. My personal philosophy for life in general is to try to treat everyone with understanding and kindness, no matter what kind of day I have had. The most important concepts I attribute to this philosophy includes, not making snap judgments when I first meet someone, always try to do a random act of kindness at least once a week if not once a day, and learning that I do not always have to be right, but being open to new ideas and perspectives. There are other concepts that I include in this which are letting people explain their side of a point, even when it disagrees with your own, and generally just being nice and polite to people no matter the circumstances.

The three concepts I listed I view as most important to me for my personal philosophy because they are very simple ideas, yet so many forget to do them. I admit that sometimes I forget to follow my own philosophy sometimes, most of the time I do it is because I am projecting my bad day on to a total stranger of even a loved one. I feel like the concepts of not making snap judgments and having an open mind go together, because if you do happen to make an initial judgement about someone the more you sit and

It wasn’t until I was older, in my teenage years, when I learned to apply my first major concept, and stop making snap judgments of people I just meet. This happened during my first retreat when I was in high school. I was put into a group with people I had not talked to in my grade and we shared what we have experienced in our life so far, and people expressed things that they have went through that I had never expected them to reveal. This was the first day that I realized you don’t know what other people are going through, and your first impression of someone is not always