Today I wrote a post in my personal blog on how deep I have fallen financially over the last few years. And that was what I thought I was very good at, taking care of my personal finance. But I found out, yes the hard way now, that when you find yourself in a certain position, in certain circumstances, you are capable of doing many things, I’m even starting to believe ‘virtually anything’ or even ‘anything’.
And while writing this I remember an experiment that was done quite a while ago where a random group of students were divided in two groups, where one group was assigned as ‘prisoners’ and the other group as ‘prison guards’. I don’t know the exact experiment, but somehow the experiment was set up that the situation would get ‘bad’, so there would be two camps or something or there would be internal fighting in the groups or something.
Anyhow, I know half way the experiment was canceled as the whole situation got out of hand. Participants in the experiment might have been injured or even died, that’s how bad it got. The ‘groups’ really behaved like they were ‘supposed to behave’, no matter how bad the situation was and no matter that it was just a bunch of students randomly chosen and randomly assigned into each of the groups.
So yes, I already knew to be careful with judgement about other people and other peoples behavior and so do you probably. And I know now and know now better and for real that in the right circumstances you might just behave as the thing you opposed so much before.
So let’s not judge each other. Better inspire and support or help. And don’t forget to forgive, no matter how bad it was.