First Impression

***Quick note on the entry below**
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This rant was brought on by a pre-disposition by someone else about me. I have already had a conversation about it with that person. So if it was not you, please do not take it personally. If it was you, I hope that we both learned something :-D Anyways, take a read because I do think that it has some good info (at least in my mind)
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Did you know that undoing a bad first impression is about 100 times harder than making a good one? They say that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. What image do you leave in someone's mind after you meet them the first time? I think that we would all like to believe that we leave a positive imprint on people after meeting them for the first time. But we don't. A lot factors into this I think: both individual's moods, timing, circumstances and previously given information and MIS-information.
The fact of the matter is that sometimes, our chance for a good impression is shot before we even enter the room. Someone almost always inadvertently gives their opinion of one of the people to the other.
"Hey, tell me about so-and-so. What do you know about them?"
You might reply "Wellllll....they are kinda like ________."
Be careful. What you say here may come around and bite ya in the keister.

The reality is that we don't always say something positive. Sometimes maybe we can't see ANYTHING positive about the person. While sometimes, maybe a lot of times there may NOT be something positive to say...give that person a chance, the benefit of the doubt.
What was it your mom used to say? "If you can't say something positive....."

Everybody has their story. No one is raised the same. No one person has been through the same set of life events.
This boils it down to: No one is the same. Everyone is different.
Newsflash.
There is not a single person upon this earth, neither past nor present that we cannot learn something from.
I think that we would all do well to remember that.
I think that if we all focused on learning from others, instead of doing the preaching ourselves....we would all be the better for it.
God gave us two ears and one mouth. This would lead me to believe that He wants us to use them in proportion.