I am not one who ever gave the first impression thing much attention.
I don't let it get to my head cause definitely I could be a victim one day too so why judge from a first meeting or attempt?
You could be so unfortunate to meet someone on their bad day, I mean it could happen to just anyone. Perhaps your first time meeting this person is when he or she isn't in a good or bright mood, and in a way, it kinda affected their expression, reactions, and sense of reasoning and speech. And that's very fine and normal for every human being.
We all have our good and bad days, so if one is quite unfortunate to meet the other during their bad day and gets a really poor or bad impression from the person having the bad day, it doesn't or shouldn't really give them the right to judge or jump to conclusions from their first impression of the person. It wouldn't be fair to either of the two people.

But speaking of first impressions I am not really against it either because I have my exceptions too.
Don't misquote me; I do have an exception doesn't mean I judge people from first impressions.
And come to think of it, what could be that exception for me? Well, that's the question I wanna throw to the house, and would really love your responses, wherever you might come across this post.

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Must It Always Be About The First Time?

I bet we all have different answers to this and also reasons to back up our answers.
Let me give you guys an instance so that when you hop in to answer the question, you wouldn't miss out on track.

^{Let's say, Julie is a rich, smart young lady, and Jeff is her friend whom she met on a social platform. They both started having a great sense of communication and connection and so because of their like minds and everything they share in common, they both decided to create an avenue for them to meet up and get to know each other better offline.}

^{A date was set for the meet-up, a location was picked and everything seemed to have been in order.
Finally, the meet-up day approached and both were set and ready to meet each other but little did they know that their plan was gonna be thwarted in one way or another.
Miss Julie here was one with a silver spoon, yet she thought of looking the opposite of what she truly was when meeting up with Jeff}

^{While Jeff was looking forward to a beauty wrapped up with the brain behind those lovely conversations they usually have.
Both had different expectations and the anticipation was on a different level too.
Jeff finally met with Julie and for a few seconds, he was almost disappointed by what he saw. Julie, on the other hand, couldn't help but wonder what went wrong exactly.}

Now my point is not being ready for anything or expecting the worst, but rather, the fact that Jeff's first impression of Julie wasn't quite what he expected. So at this point, who would you blame? Jeff for judging so quickly and being disappointed at the same time? Or Julie for not wanting to put herself all out for someone she just happen to meet or went to meet for the first time? Who among them is to be blamed?

Howbeit, my answer to this might not really sit well with some people but it all still boils down to the fact that I don't let the first impression thing get into my head and ruin some great opportunities, relationships, etc.
I know that we have different reasons for believing that everything should always be about a first time.
But my question is, "what if the first time wasn't the right or best time?"
Everything doesn't always have to be just the way we want or expected, the first time.
Sometimes it could be the second, third, etc.
The more reason why I can never judge people by their first impressions.
I've been a victim of people always judging me from first impressions only to come and apologize later saying they never thought I would be quite the opposite of what they had initially judged from afar.

So what is your take on First Impressions and what's your answer to the above-highlighted questions?

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^{PS: Photos are mine except stated otherwise}

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𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫

^{~ 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐲! 𝐀 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐳𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐀 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐬.
𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 "𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞".
𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐚𝐲
𝐇𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 ~}

               7 March 2023
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