Chun,+Ho+June

Have you ever made an assumption about someone or something and later discovered you were wrong? What led you to make the incorrect assumption? What did you do when you discovered you were wrong? Is it human to assume or should we be more careful?

Actually, I made a lot of assumptions when I was in elementry school. Back then, I had really terrible habbit of judging & measuring people using their knowledge or marks they got for the reports. I made so many assumptions such as - 'this person's personality wouldn't be so great because she/he doesn't have good comments from school or teachers' but as I grew older and learned how to communicate and talk to each other more freely, I learned that things such as marks, reports and test scores aren't best things to judge people. I was making these kinds of assumptions back in elementry school til first grade of middle school because I was just crazy about marks. When I arrived at this school, I couldn't say a sentence in English. So, in order to communicate to other people, I had to work extra hard, achieve high test scores and make further improvements in my English skills. After these kinds of thoughts came into my mind, there was no stop to it. I just simply judged people using marks, which I considered as the most important thing at that time, they got not considering any of their true personality. For so many reasons, I think assumptions are something which should be used with care. Assuming someone just with your own judgements seems to be so unfair for the ones who are being judged. Plus, I don't even think that people have rights to even think that way. //Good work Ho June. A very thoughtful answer. It's interesting that a lack of experience led you to judge people and make false assumptions in the past and that a new experience led you to reconsider making assumptions based on grades alone.//