Hypocrisy

its such a recurring theme in my thoughts. If I see so much hypocrisy, it makes sense to look at myself from a distance to check if its rubbed off on me. So often, we beleive that we are right and they are wrong... in our blind arrogance we don't give the other person a chance. It takes a moment of humilty and an open mind of insight to realize that maybe we are wrong, and even if we're not at that particular moment, we can be... because we are falliable. And we can be so quick to judge, what happened to the 70 excuses we allow our brother/sister in Islam? What happened to thinking the best of people, not the worst? I don't think that exists in practice anymore. How about allowing them the one excuse that, we've all made mistakes and done things we regret..because we're human, and we learn through our mistakes. If anyone has ever been merciful to us, don't you think someone else is also worthy of it? I guess its the "pay it forward" concept. Also, Allah is merciful to those who are merciful to others.

Think about why you pick the battles that you do. Do you even pick them? Is there a method to the madness or must you always be right? So if you are picking them... why those in particular? do they better your relationship with someone, with Allah(swt), does it set a wrong, right? or is it for egotistical reasons? Self-reflection is the key to seeking out your own faults and working towards correcting them. Yea, it may sound a bit new-agey but in all seriousness, we MUST be the ones to look inside and be humble enough to admit there is something wrong or something needs improvement. You can have all the people in the world tell you that you ought to change, but it won't make a salt grain's worth of a difference if you can't see it too...