John & I are both NCIS fans. Which is sort of a challenge, since we don't have a television, don't watch online. Instead, we wait out the season, then get the dvd. Lately, we've been playing catch up (on our teeny tiny dvd player) with seasons past. At the moment, we're going through Season Five, which includes a lot of episodes we never saw.
As we snuggled on the couch, watching Lost & Found, John was startled as I leapt forward & reran the disk & replayed Ducky saying something to Jimmy -
"We are meant to understand, not judge."
Oh my gosh - that line captures what I've tried to do all my life. Alas, it's a quality that drives a lot of people nuts. Can't be helped. My guess it's always been part of my nature, but can point to the relatively tender age of 18 for the clincher that cemented realizing that while there's weird comfort in being judgmental, we're almost invariably at least somewhat (often wildly) seriously off the mark.
Oh, the challenge of striving for good judgment without succumbing to being judgmental!
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