Assumptions.

So many people make assumptions based on what they see at first glance. The one I personally hear the most is that I have everything easier because I am young; This usually refers to health. It is apparently impossible for people to grasp that anyone under the age of 40 can have physical problems. Everyone knows people just go by what they can see, the Bible even says so.
1 Samuel 16:7
"But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."

For years and years when I catch myself starting to assume about someone, and pause and try to think of better reason they are acting the way they are. Instead of assuming the worse of someone, I think, "Well, maybe they have some deeper problem. Some situation they are dealing with, and this is the best they can do right now."

Everyone has different limitations, and everyone's limitations vary over their lives as trials and troubles come. For an example EVERYONE should be able to understand: You can do more and do better, and more happily when you are well, and less so when you have a cold or the flu. A greater scale exists, but I know all should be able to read that one.

I know a lot of the "you're young and fine" assumption comes from acting like I'm super woman. I like to work hard... not work hard "for my age," or "for my disability." I don't like people to look at me and see "less than." No one likes that.

I want to do my best. If I'm not stumbling down from pain and exhaustion, then I haven't done my best. I could do more. A lesson someone has been trying to teach me, is that it isn't always best to do your best. Sometimes it's better to do 75 everyday so that the overall is stronger and better. So that endurance withstands the test of time, day after day.

Maybe my worst assumptions are about myself. Where is my inner voice to defend myself from the assumptions and judgements I place on me?

But, then, where in the Bible does it ever say to do anything at only 75%?