Oh, wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us!.

You, yes, you there - the smug one - reading this now . . .

You think I do not know . . . but I do. I know everything there is to know about what happened before. I don't have to approve or disapprove.  I don't have to judge. Who is perfect? Not me. What about you?
Life isn't always easy and sometimes we all have times when we do things - live life the wrong way.   Who is perfect? You? Certainly not, but I believe you believe you are.

Do you think you are perfect? That you have never behaved badly? That you have never hurt someone who, despite that, tried so hard to keep loving you.
Have you never let someone down?
Do you ignore your own faults in the belief that another's are worse?
Can you not see how you are trying to make another person suffer?

I do not need to believe in God to see the truth in the words - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Oh, wad some Power the giftie gie us,
To see ourselves as others see us!