19/02/2026
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The Universe loves a plot twist.
Every single time I judge something or someone I don’t fully understand… the Universe goes, “Oh hello Chantal, here’s your personalised little life lesson so you can relate… lil miss judgy troll” 😂
Anndd.. just like that, I’m served the exact circumstance I had opinions about.
The person I said “I’d never entertain.” The pattern I said, “Couldn’t be me.” The exact thing I’d “never”… and here I am, nevering like no man’s business…Well, you know that good old blind spot we thought we transcended ? 🤷🏻♀️
It’s pretty comical and the universe is clever like that. It doesn’t punish, it educates and it has a really wicked sense of humour.
See judgement is cute when it’s from a distance.
🧐 Distance from context.
🧐 Distance from nuance.
🧐 Distance from experience.
It’s easy to critique when you’ve never had to carry it. It’s easy to say “I would NEVER…” when life hasn’t positioned you there yet. Until it does 🙃
Until you find yourself inside the very lesson you were commenting on from the sidelines, feeling all the things you previously had neat little opinions about.
Of late, I’ve noticed the second I get a bit too comfy on my high horse… I’m gently (and sometimes not so gently) invited to walk the road myself. And let me tell you, humble pie does not taste like a custard slice! But it does do something else.
It expands you.
There’s something strangely freeing and beautiful about stepping off the ‘judgement pedestal’. Every time we’re shown the mirror, a little more humility is born. A little more softness and a little less certainty about who’s weak, who’s a t**t, who’s foolish and who’s “less evolved.”
Life has this way of enrolling you in the exact module you thought you’d already passed. And the ass you were kicking yesterday? Turns out you’re standing in those same shoes tomorrow. Ask me, I’m becoming an expert 😜.
If you’ve been oddly humbled lately… welcome. Forgive yourself. Experience teaches what theory never could and sometimes growth isn’t transcendence, it’s just your ego being gently sat down 😉
Luvvies,
The reformed (but spicy) judgy cow.
❤️