By Nneka Okumazie
There are very few things in the world that most people won’t do under some conditions. There are a few people who won’t do anything under certain conditions. Most of the things people say they can’t or won’t are under normal circumstances. If there is a guarantee that it will not be known, or that others would join, or that the benefits are something, it goes.
Though lots of things still seem abhorrent to imagine or do directly, the worse things are at times done indirectly, such that the same effect of doing so indirectly results from the direct doing of the same.
There is a lot of pretence and hypocrisy everywhere by how everyone judges others because of the usual standards of things in the open. But the open is not the only thing done every day, even things that are necessary.
If there are normal things done without others seeing, which if others were to see, would seem somehow, there can be lots of not normal things to be done, without others knowing or within a closed group.
There are people, who have expertise at judging others with things that may actually be despicable but throwing stones, there’s hardly acknowledgement of own flaws in those moments because that is not the way it works. Those at the receiving end get all the blame and look the worse, while others dish it out.
It is difficult to find sincerity in judgment or to find those aware of their own vulnerabilities, while cautiously reprimanding others.
Although some people have also abused the not to be judged phrase, where they do things lacking morals and say others should not say.
The possibility that anyone can make a mistake should reduce the ability to actively court mistakes then the claim should not be judged.
Around the world, things don’t seem the way they seem. What many say they are or do, isn’t the case. What many are really about or do, they don’t say. The real situation is falsehood while what is seen is just a play. There are things to not admit, rather go on playing, as some get caught and crushed thinking the play is real.
The question for those pursuing sincerity to always ask, within, is that in this situation is this pretence or hypocrisy?
[Nehemiah 2:19, But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?]
