When we talk about relationships the first thing that comes out of our mouths is always there appearance.
"I have a NEW boyfriend"
"Oh really, What does he look like?"
Or
"Whats your opinion of my new friend?"
"I don't know, she kinda has a weird face."
If there's a new girl in class the first comment to, or about her, is about her weave. You think we could think of something more intellectual to say about someone when we first see them. Or something positive at least. But everyone's first impression is always going to be negative and appearance based. And have you noticed whenever someone brings up someone's name in a conversation you automatically place the name with the face and your opinion on that person is probably based on how they look. Why does that matter so much? It seems that people don't have other people's names in there mouth's more or less there facial features or ashy skin.
It's programmed into our minds to connect faces with names. But why do we obsess over the physical appearance of one another. The way a person looks is always at the forefront of our minds. If not someone else's but our own appearance.
So technically your real first impression of someone occurs even before that person has opened their mouths; because before that, you have already sized them up and down and placed them in some superficial file in your brain.
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