Stained Glass

My computers finally, decidedly dead. Using a laptop right now, My post that was supposed to be up yesterday's gone with it... Just bad luck I guess. It was overdue for a reformatting anyway. Just a prod in the right direction. ;)

mMmm...

There's something thats been bothering me more than usual recently.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Somehow the sayings simultaneously phenomenally infamous and inexplicably sedentary. How is it that a world renowned and amply substantiated aphorism is so widely disregarded? Why do stereotypical notions still own a stranglehold on the human perception?

First impressions are all important, yet they are boldly coloured by the views, however slanted they may be, that the beholder derives from a persons appearance, and what he seems to be. He is assosiated to labels according to what he wears, how he walks, how he talks. From my own experience, alot of people have told me that I remind them of a friend, or someone they know. Is it then so far-fetched that many have been reminded of someone their less fond of? Of course then they wouldn't say anything. Maybe its unfair to say that judging someone through thorn rimmed glasses is erroneous; it's logical that people with similiar attitudes could foreseeably share certain characteristics. You could simply say that you are utilizing common knowledge and past encounters with persons akin to better surmise the character of a new acquaintance. Fair enough; to you. How fair is it to the person who is prejudged concordant to his looks, his only fault being that he possesses qualities analogous to a particular someone or group of people? Typecasts are extremely dangerous and flawed tools. It could potentially hurt people at both its ends.

Appearances are gossamer facades that can't, and will never do justice to the luster of the inner being.

It is infinitely more difficult to accept and understand someone for who they really are, and maybe there is no true tangible benefit in it.

Again, its only my opinion, but I feel that it is only when we look past these insubstantial walls that entomb each of us will we even begin to understand one another.

Only then will we understand the abstract concept of friendship...

Its simple, Don't say you do, Show that you do...