It has been frequently said that before you can judge a man, you must walk a mile in his shoes. While your viewpoint matters, it is more important to try to see things from other people’s perspective so that we are able to understand their reasoning and how their experiences have caused it. If we were to automatically assume something about someone before truly getting to know them, we would prevent ourselves from being able to build a relationship at all. A character in Sharon Creech’s novel Walk Two Moons goes through something similar. After seeing a man stand at her door, Phoebe immediately accuses the stranger as a lunatic, even without knowing his business at all. There are several times when the stranger attempts to speak with Phoebe,
