Black or White?

For starters, I felt everything could be segregated into either of the two categories. I mean, a person can either be good or bad, a thing either useful or useless. But I recently have come across quite a few events that did succeed in altering my views. 

Any person or object is a bundle of characters and doesn't just portray any one of them. For instance, a person might be extremely kind but lack even the slightest bit of ambition. Now, for those of us who give more importance to kindness as a quality, this person might just seem like a saint. On the contrary, those of us who feel that a life without ambition is a life devoid of worth, this person might not seem to appeal at all. Similarly, to the first group of people some other attribute of his, let's say his habit of smoking, might seem pathetic and the second group of people might find his hardworking nature to be amazing! So, when we decide whether we like or dislike a person by and large, it depends upon whether we seem to like/dislike most of the attributes of his personality. 

I now realize as to how wrong I had been  earlier. I feel that a person is neither black, nor white, but he exhibits shades of grey. It's only our perspective, or more precisely  the angle of his personality that we have been able to witness, that determines whether we perceive him as black or white. The closer we look the more we realize that even the person who seems like a complete devil to us has something positive about him, that we due to our strong sense of dislike, seem to neglect. We should give everyone their chance and at all times refrain from forming preconceptions or being judgmental. Afterall, we too might seem white to some, but black to the others...

Antara