I welcome you to my blog. Since time immemorial we have heard that first impressions matter because until they get to know you, the first impression they got when they met you is what they will know you for or the type of person you are. First impressions can be right, and at the same time, they can be misleading. I have come in contact with people who looked rough at first but were later on discovered to be as gentle as a dove, and I have also met those whom I thought were the calm ones, but getting to know them, I came to realize they were even rougher than the ones I thought were rough.
We have all had an experience where we judged people from the first impression they left when we first met them, but getting to know them better, we realized that they were a lot better than what we thought or a lot worse than what we thought. So first impressions are a double-edged sword; they can be true in the long run, and sometimes in the long run they can turn out to be misleading or to have misled us. Based on experiences, I don't always go with first impressions; they have misled me on countless occasions to trust people I am actually supposed to avoid and run into the arms of those I was actually supposed to avoid.
One time growing up we visited an uncle and were advised to avoid a neighbor in his compound just because he had tattoos and looked kind of scary; even I would have advised the same because of the first impression he leaves based on his looks and how he dresses. My mom, from the moment she saw him sitting in front of his house, warned against going in that direction throughout our stay; trust me, over time staying there, he proved to be the only person with humane characteristics there, while the other neighbors without tattoos and dressed decently with ties and plain trousers were something else.
I don't judge people based on first impressions even though it determines where I will place you while I wait for you to prove that I was right or wrong. I don't conclude based on first impressions; I just wait until one confirms that what I was able to devise based on first impressions was right, and then I draw a conclusion, as I have seen countless times that first impressions can be misleading; you start to place people where they don't belong.
