The first time my sister woke me up and asked that I change my sleeping posture because she heard me snore, I was shocked. Me?! Snoring? No way! Was she sure she heard well? I was so perplexed that I sat up. She was seated on a desk beside the bed, studying for her exams.

I looked at her with sleepy eyes and questioned, “Are you sure you heard me snore?” She just smiled and asked me to go back to sleep. My eyelids were still heavy so did not push but decided to ask her the next day. Even as I pulled the bedspread over my body, I was still skeptical.

It bothered me. There had been countless times, my sister and I had made fun of people who snored. On one occasion, when our cousin experienced a cold, we teased her all day because she had been snoring the night before.

We just found it amusing.

I, in particular, was quick to alert someone anytime I heard them snore, be it indoors or outdoors. I found it embarrassing too, so snoring was the last word I expected to be used for me. I acknowledged the fact that some people have certain health issues that can cause snoring. But I had not been diagnosed of any such condition.

That night, there were so many things going on in my mind as I went back to sleep. What if my sister was right and I was really snoring? Will she tell my cousin? And if she did, were they going to make fun of me too? These questions filled my mind as I forced myself to sleep.

The following morning, it was the first thing we spoke about. When I asked her, she told me, it ended when I went back to sleep. She concluded it must have been caused by my sleeping posture. It is pretty much possible you have been in a similar situation before.

This incident, made me realize how quick we sometimes are at pointing fingers at others forgetting that we are no saints ourselves. To err is human but we often criticize others who make mistakes as do we never make any.

Just image... I was so sure my sister could be wrong, even though she was wide awake and I was not. To me, there was no way I snored but little did I know that it was only a matter of my sleeping posture.

You may have been quick to deny like I did. When we sleep, we are not aware of what happens around us. It is the same way in our lives. We often overlook the fact that no one is perfect and blame others when they are wrong.

We may not be aware of the things we also do wrong. So we should not be quick to judge others when they are wrong because we are all prone to make errors.