You've probably heard the saying, "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." Right? And by now you've probably figured out, I like to dissect and get to the core of arbitrary things, so I ask you: Are we ever actually making impressions on people? Are the people we meet feeling our energy and reacting to it, or are these impressions of us, based on things that have absolutely nothing at all to do with us?
What I mean is, would it be more accurate to say that first impressions, formed with little evidence, are perhaps conclusions influenced by the individual's own past experiences that induce an instant response to us - like when someone reminds us of a person from our past? Could one's 'idea' of us or even one's own view of self, be more at play here than anything that we actually are? Are these first impressions we supposedly make on people really about us, or merely projections made by the viewer?
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what (s)he thinks into it." ~Ernest Holmes