When looking at a person for the first time everyone has a perception of what they think they may or may not be like. A person has many things that can make them different. Physical qualities, interests, clothing, and even how they carry themselves. The perceptions that people make of others are usually not correct. When looking at myself I see a ballerina that has been dancing for 16 years. Usually when I'm just meeting a person they ask if I'm in hockey or softball just because I'm not how people assume that a ballerina would look like. (You know, like a twig. Haha.) I think if everyone just stopped to talk to people once in awhile they would learn extraordinary things about them.
There are a few things inhibiting this change such as the media and our peers. I know plenty of people that I would have never talked to while I was a closed minded high schooler. I am glad that once I got to River Falls I realized that there are people outside of my small city and there are amazing things to learn from everyone. The people that I probably wouldn't have given the time of day to a few years ago if they would have came into contact with me are actually very good friends. I gained new friends all because I didn't let me perceptions get in the way of what a person is really like on the inside.
Have you ever became friends with someone that you never thought you would?
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I have become friends with smeone I never thought I would. Actually my best friend was someone I never thought I would ever see outside of school. He was so annoying and just rude, but one day I started talking to him through one of my other frieds and it really changed the way I had first perceived him. After that first day of truely getting to know him we became inseparable until recently when he left for the army. Its funny how things like that end up working out.
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