impressions

(sorry for the double post but i am really in a very pensive mood tonight and need to write all these thoughts somewhere or else i will forget about it)

 we all have impressions of people, formed based on what we see/hear about them. but how accurate are these impressions? after all, like the word says, they are only impressions. sometimes i feel like people judge too much based on impressions. just because a person appears to behave a certain way doesn't mean the person is only like that. the person could have other sides that you don't see, sides that perhaps make you like the person more or less. 

i don't think it's fair to judge a person based on what you hear about a person. personally i try not to judge a person until i interact personally with the person. not saying i don't judge. as of now, i do and first impressions count for a lot of people i meet. it's okay to have an impression, we just shouldn't let that impression decide the way we are going to treat a person. we may be apprehensive about talking to the person but we should always give the person a chance to prove us wrong. sometimes what we hear or see is really unpleasant and puts us off but i guess everyone deserves a chance to prove themselves? we shouldn't be condemned based on our past/appearance/hearsay but who we really are now and what we will be like in future. also we need to dig deeper into people. sometimes on the surface level people can appear to be this kind of person. but upon going deeper and knowing the person's thoughts, you may find that it's a totally different person altogether. 

so yes from now on i shall try to know people deeper. i have so many surface friends it's fun playing and joking with them but we aren't proper friends at all. guess it's time to know them for who they really are on the inside, and not just their joker side.