We cannot know about why people behave the way they behave, writes Wyatt Edward Gates. He reminds us everyone has a reason for what they do and that our assumptions affect our own happiness.
. . . by taking a charitable attitude towards others we can avoid a lot of pointless suffering.
Source: Medium, January 31, 2019. Link. If we can imagine a charitable reason for what others do, it liberates us from any need to interpret the actions of others as cruel attacks on our person.
INSIGHTS: We live in a world that often measures us as worthy or not worthy. Gates’ perspective of taking a charitable attitude towards others can help us avoid a lot of pointless contention.