I thoroughly enjoyed following you down that thought tunnel, Charlotte, and I look forward to seeing how subtracting judgement plays out in your next novel.
My father often played a recording of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood when I was a child, and the line, "We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood,” has always s…
I thoroughly enjoyed following you down that thought tunnel, Charlotte, and I look forward to seeing how subtracting judgement plays out in your next novel.
My father often played a recording of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood when I was a child, and the line, "We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood,” has always stuck with me. It opened the door to accepting our complexities and awakened a desire to seek out the cause of people's behaviour, whether the origins be in nurture, nature, lived experience, or an impairment of the mind.
Your essay has me thinking that judgement could be a byproduct of disconnection between the judge and the judged. Perhaps when we fail to understand why or how a person is the way they are, we become trapped into judgement; whereas when we seek to understand the cause of the behaviour, we begin to observe it, turn it over in our hands, examine it, and place it in a context. We replace judgement with understanding. Not necessarily an approval or disapproval of the behaviour, but a rationalisation of it.
I thoroughly enjoyed following you down that thought tunnel, Charlotte, and I look forward to seeing how subtracting judgement plays out in your next novel.
My father often played a recording of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood when I was a child, and the line, "We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood,” has always stuck with me. It opened the door to accepting our complexities and awakened a desire to seek out the cause of people's behaviour, whether the origins be in nurture, nature, lived experience, or an impairment of the mind.
Your essay has me thinking that judgement could be a byproduct of disconnection between the judge and the judged. Perhaps when we fail to understand why or how a person is the way they are, we become trapped into judgement; whereas when we seek to understand the cause of the behaviour, we begin to observe it, turn it over in our hands, examine it, and place it in a context. We replace judgement with understanding. Not necessarily an approval or disapproval of the behaviour, but a rationalisation of it.