LogFAQs > #986051852

First impressions are full of bias and judgment. Sad fact of life.

Sometimes you'll dislike a person simply because they look like someone you hated in the past.

Or you'll like them because they remind you of someone positive you know.

There are also a disturbing number of people in this world who are satisfied with their current number of friends, and arent looking to make a new one....so they will meet a new person and psychologically break them down and completely fabricate reasons not to like them....just so they dont have to put forth the effort of getting to know them, because they have no intentions of becoming their friend.

Just dismissing them before they even got to know them. And hating someone (even if it's for some BS reason) is the easiest way to do that without needing to blame yourself.

"Meh, he doesnt make eye-contact with me in the hall, or say hi in the parking lot. So he's an asshole."

But he actually did make eye-contact. He even waved and said hello in the parking lot. But there was that ONE time he was exiting the bathroom and the other person was standing by the water fountain, and it just didnt seem like the time or place for eye-contact and a "hello" and for whatever reason...they locked that minuscule interaction down as the one to encapsulate their entire persona.

"hE dOeSn'T eVeN SaY HeLLo!!!!"

(I've seen people do this multiple times, and it's fucking insane).

Also, when it comes to dating, "first impressions" are almost always based on animalistic attraction and nothing more.

If anyone tries to turn this into an argument (because people tend to do this when I give strange examples), just lettin you know right now that I aint playin yer game ;)