Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Posted to Facebook Jan. 8th
We live in a society that states in our judicial system that we are innocent until proven guilty.  How much we actually believe that, I don't know.  You can stand in the grocery store check out and see how many publications are practicing, "you are guilty until proven innocent."

Similarly, I can catch myself trying to justify my rightness in a situation, even when there has been no assumption made by anyone/thing that I am wrong.  Which gets me to wondering if maybe we are more programmed to believe, "I am wrong until I justify that I am right."  So, if we proclaim that we believe/support the idea that we are "innocent until proven guilty," would we not also want to proclaim that we believe and support that "I am right until I justify (decide) that I am wrong (I want something different)?"

How might I perceive things differently if the basis of my life is that I am right/deserving/justified until I make a decision I want more, or want to change something?  Might I be willing to try more new things?  Might I be willing to love more easily?  Might I be willing to shoot for the stars and not care if I end up on the moon?  Might I be more willing to share who I really am with you?  Might I be more willing to share those ideas and inventions with the rest of the world?  Might I believe in you more, because I was believing in me?  Might I more easily trust that others are doing the best that they can?  Might I more easily see the 'rightness' of you and me?  Might the perceived degrees of worthiness that separate us, (because of money, possessions or job) melt away?  Might I be more eager to identify and 'justify' what and how I want to make changes, versus being ashamed that I might need to?

Innocent until proven guilty.  Right until I justify/decide I want more.  I wonder what those publications in the grocery store check out line would be like?