JuDgInG bY eXtErNaL AppEaRaNcE.

Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself and as long as you create yourself, you are creating an image and a behavior that everyone around you is able to see and perceive. We are always creating our behaviors according to the values that have been taught to us, according to the day-a-day experiences and always related to the people we are used to be with. On the other hand we are creating an image tied to the fashion we are watching on tv, tied to the clothes that are always on the runway or tied to what is in and avoiding what is out.
Nowadays, people are forgetting the importance of creating an original personality but are focus on a personality based on what they are wearing and about the feeling they can express with the clothes they wear. As long as they do this, people around might make a statement about them, just watching their appearance. That is why the society is used to judge a person by external appearances.
When we meet someone for the first time, we are always making a judgment about them, without a word and just a look from the bottom to the top we can know if we are interested or not on meeting that person. After we take a look we start analyzing the way that person is: small, tall, the color of the skin, the eyes, the smile and the body. The last thing we see is the personality, how they behave or express or even feel.
A great example would be when we are in love because when we see that person we know we are interested on them, we start going out and begin to patch things up. During a week knowing eachother we realize we are very different and at this step we see we should have know eachother carefuly before starting a relationship. That happens because we are too focus on the appearance and we are not aware of what really matters: The inside, what we cannot see. The beuty with the time is gone and all what is left are wrinkles, scars, marks of the pass of the years.
When we meet a person whose appearance is beutiful and then we meet the way they are and express and we find them mean, selfish, rude people then we are not going to see them as a beautiful person but as an ugly one. On the contrary when we meet an “ugly person” and you get close to him or her you may find them kind, loving and caring, at this point you are not going to see them as an ugly person but as a beautiful one.
Sometimes we are too focus on the appearance that we forget to show others what we really are and when other finally meet us they may like the way we are or they may stop being around us.
In contrast it is said that the appearance is important and is a key for people to judge the way we are. To illustrate, when we are at a job intreview, the interviewers are not just studying your C.V. but are also studying the way we are dressed. As a result the job is going to be given to someone whose C .V. and presentation goes according to what the Enterprise requires.
In fact, the appearance can also be a help for us to describe people and to pretend to know how they are. Apperance is also an open door before meeting a person. Actually the world is full of appearances but that does not mean we are going to believe in everything we see but we have to be aware of every detail that is around us.
Therefore we should not go around the way the world goes around and as long as we do not judge people by external appearances we are going to be able to know different kinds of culture, thoughts, behaviors and personal styles.
As soon as we know we have an original style and personality we are going to learn to judge people by the things we cannot see, by the inside. We are going to be aware that what is outside are the clothes, our best clothes but on the inside everything can be just upside down.
Finally we can take our apperances to express feelings or just for fashion, but it is never going to show my personality. Remmember the only way you can know the people that are around you is relating to them and getting close to them. Do not pretend that with just a look you already know them but always try to look for the things that are inside, that is the only way you can actually try to make a statement about the people around you.

BY: Alejandra Fernandez.