Prejudices

The year began, a new place
I looked around and this is what I saw
A few snobs, some wannabes, some slime bags, certain losers, a few good for nothing, and what was left was a rare person here and there and of course there was me
Believing I had no superiority complex
Was yet another of my faults
I measured and passed verdicts on each and every one
I weighed others with myself as the standard unit- blinded my the misconception of my normality
Exams approaching I need to study- where do I get my notes?
Yes, unbelievably so- it’s the low scoring ‘good for nothing’ people that come to my rescue
The snobs too I gradually learnt were simply shy and non conversational- not much more snobbish than me
The wannabes were not all pretense- simply trying to adjust
The losers were with me when I was all-alone
The slime bags were not so slimy I had seen so much of a worse lot
In this judging and being judged I wasted a year of knowing great people
This breakthrough in my prejudice came a year after
I realized I too was a show- off, a snob, a loser to some or the other
The biggest realization though was not in the nature of others
But how I quickly formed concepts, without consciously being aware of what a blunder I had done