First Impressions...

First Impressions are last impressions, they say, but what is also true about first impressions is that, sometimes, more often than we would like them to be, they can be misleading. Like a book should not be judged by its cover, a person should not be judged on the way he looks.

That is easy to say but when you go to a bookshop and have to buy a book, you have got less than thirty minutes to pick a book to buy. In those thirty minutes you are going to go through a number of titles, only looking at the covers or maybe the first and the last page. If that is good, you will buy it. It is not without reason that publishers hire designers and spend a lot of time, effort, and money in designing the cover of a book.

The same goes with people. If you have only 15 minutes to meet a person, then the easiest and the most convenient way to judge him are the first impressions. The way a person looks, talks and carries oneself. However much we would like to believe that we are people who don’t go by first impressions, our brain does the hard work before we realize it and sometimes we already know if we like this person or not without a single word being said on either of our part.

There’s nothing wrong with that. More often than not, it can be said that someone who takes his time to groom himself and make sure that he gives out a good first impression is a person who will show such care and pay attention to all things in life. The only problem is that some people know the power of first impressions and can misuse it. Therefore, it is important that we be very careful about letting first impressions be the last impressions without ignoring them at the same time.