First Impression Is NOT The Last Impression!

First Impression Is NOT The Last Impression!

Will first impression be the last?

A first impression is your first thought about someone or something. I see people around me blindly believing the quote “first impression is the last impression”. But is it so? No, I don’t think so. How many times does it happen that who made a good first impression stays the good guy for a lifetime or who made a bad one stays the bad guy. Never! It doesn’t work this way. With time people change and time brings the good and the worst in us.

First impression, according to me, is one’s judgement about someone according to his or her personality and appearance in the first meeting itself. But do you think everyone would show you his or her true colors in the first meeting? No, it isn’t so. Every individual is different and it takes time to understand someone. The predicted personality cannot always be the concluded one. Our actions, opinions and mannerisms leave an impression on the people around us. And these can’t be judged in the very first introduction. It happened a number of times that I judged a person wrong. Who used to be the one I hated became my best pal and who used to be the closest to me turned into a big disappointment.

We all try to make a lasting first impression but if we don’t succeed, then do we sit hopeless? No, we grab every opportunity we get to make it right. We can change people’s perspectives about ourselves by improving our work and rectifying our mistakes. A student might not write his best paper in the first attempt but the second nicely written paper is not judged on the basis of the first one. An actor’s debutant film might not be liked but his good performance in next film is not defamed because of the first one.

Yes, first impressions are important but they certainly are not the last impressions. It’s we who choose to leave erroneous or mesmerizing impression on others and our actions point in the same direction. What left you soothed in the first impression will remain the pacifier for a lifetime is a wrong judgement. Water when flowing in a peaceful sea is calming but the same water when flowing as a flood is catastrophic. Everything and everyone has different prospective at different time. Before getting completely convinced about a certain impression of someone or something, we should give it enough time. So now on a concluding note, I’d like to repeat that first impression is NOT the last impression.

I'm On The Fence!

I'm on the Fence!

On the fence?

It’s time for me to change my tune. I used to be that careless free bird going with the flow. The most difficult decision I ever made was choosing which chocolate to buy, which ice cream to order or which was my favorite toy. Everything and everyone seemed equally interesting and fun. I used to be excited and fearless to try. I loved to explore the different paths and roads.

But the things have changed now; a large weight of expectations is dropped on my shoulders, most of which are self-imposed. I can no longer go with the tide in the sea of my life. Nothing now seems exciting, but I’m scared now. It’s the time to make decision that would change my life for the better or for the worse. There is no middle ground. I can either be a success or a big failure in life. The choice is mine and life would go on either way. I get loads of advices and suggestions but none is what I look forward to. I’m the driver of the car of my life and one wrong road and it will be me who will be handicapped for life.

I sometimes wonder am I eligible to be making such a decision, or should I let someone else make it for me? But it’s me who has to live with it for the rest of my life, and who else would know better than me about what I desire and what I’d like.

I’m caught between a rock and a hard place. I’ve a question on my hands answer to which is far not seen. I cannot dare to move until I’m sure it is the right thing. I have a hard time toying at the idea of what to choose and yet the choice is not made. Life is flowing and I’m not doing anything. Life is going by and I’m too scared to jump in and play.