Think About It

Don't judge book by its cover. That's what people tend to say, a lot. Well, they're not exactly wrong, but then, book cover is meant to be judged. It's what makes us interested to read the book in the first place. Imagine you're in a bookstore, then you see two different books set up in a line; one with a very attractive cover, and one with dull design. Surely you'll choose the attractive one, right? Maybe the contents turned out to be bad, but that's not the point. The point is, we can't help to feel attracted to the book at the first sight, courtesy of the cover.

It's the same with people. Even though it's not nice to judge people from their outer appearances, moreover people we don't know anything about, but still. We can't just blame people because of their wrong first impression about us. Because despite everything, first impression does matter, and outer appearances are what most people who don't know us see of us, whether we want it or not. Except you don't care about it, maybe it's time for some introspection and fixing ups, instead of frustrating ourselves up because of their arbitrary assumptions about us.

note: this is basically me talking to myself. just don't feel insulted or anything because in reality, you really cannot judge a book by its cover. I guess I'm just trying to make myself feel better by looking at my problem in a different light.