Impressions

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First impression can be very misleading

Although the first impression might be very misleading, people tend to pay a lot of attention to the way we look. People judge each by the kind of cloth we wear, the body composition we have, the color of our skin, the hairstyle, body language, etc. A lot of people base their judgments about the person solely on the looks without even taking into consideration the person’s educational, intellectual, and financial backgrounds. In order to have a fair perception of a person we must take time and get to know the person’s character and the various reasons for doing one thing over the other to get a true understanding of a person.
There are some instances where we might be able to guess right about the person’s workplace by the way he or she looks. If we walk down the street and the young lady is coming towards us wearing a t-shirt with the nearby café’s name on it and having an apron on, we might jump to a conclusion that this girl is a waitress at that café. But this kind of scenario is not going to work perfectly all the time. Even though we might guess correctly about her workplace, we cannot say a lot for sure about her personality. Taking into consideration her age, we may begin guessing about her life. We may make an assumption that she is a college student working part-time at the café to earn some spending money. We may also assume that she is not married and does not have any kids. But all of these assumptions are entirely our guesses. In reality she might have absolutely different life story than the one we assumed. Oftentimes the appearance of the person cannot truly reveal us the accurate picture of this person.
Some people are more concerned with the way they look then others. On one hand, we have a lot of people that are willing to spend a couple of hours each week shopping for new cloth and

accessories. These people are subscribing to fashion magazines to stay up...