First impressions - how much do they really matter?

When we meet somebody for the first time, we usually watch him or her very carefully.

First of all, we pay attention to appearance and clothes somebodys’s wearing. Besides, it’s very important for us how this person is speaking to us, gesticulating or acting. Therefore we can say if somebody is for example friendly, kind or uniteresting. And it is just first impression. Of course, it doesn’t refer only to people but to, for instance, books, films or CDs, too. When we want to buy it, we read a title, watch the cover and if we don’t like it we wouldn’t buy it.

But the first impression may be wrong.

As far as the people are concerned it is said that “You don’t judge book by its cover”. What’s more, in many cases it’s true: we meet person, for instance man, who is very handsome, charming and elegant. But when we start to talk with him it turns out that he’s boring, selfish and uninteresting. And vice versa: somebody isn’t so pretty or well-dressed but actually he (or she) is very friendly, inteligent and kind person.

Generally, we shouldn’t follow the way somebody looks but there are some situations when first impression is very important. One of them is we’re applying for a job – elegant look and smile may be very helpful for us.

Personally I believe that more important is what we have inside than the way we look. At the same time we sholud try to make a positive and friendly impression on other people. Otherwise they could be biassed against us.