Formal Essay [Part 2] [How Can You Change People's First Impression]

January 4, 2012

Wala na naman kaming file. So, we're instructed [again, again]
Essay ulit... 1000 words... English.
Walanjo talaga naman I made ubos na my reserbang English.
Pero I should say, hindi ako nakakagawa ng essay madalas... lahat sa school. And kahit maraming mali ang isang  'to, I'm kinda proud of this one. I made my point here... yata.

Inuulit ko... redundant nayung iba kase pinilit ko na lang palawakin yung article.


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How Can You Change People's First Impression


               We are the character of ourselves once we show a smile to other person or shake their hand for the very first time. It is like selling a good representation to others that would last maybe an entire time. A research says that a person makes eleven different decisions in the first seven seconds of meeting. Seven seconds is what we just need.

When making new acquaintances, first impression would be a great consideration. By here, people will mark you on what characteristics you are exhibiting, but not your personality. That's why wrong impressions often happens. Most of the time, individuals who has a strong rapport to people, the one who smiles, and the one who makes the “you-are-welcome” expression has the chance of being approached by many or regularly. That is also how endorsers sells a lot of product in any media. One must create a delightful presentation or exhibition of an object or a person to the masses to make a product appealing and laudable to the consumer's eyes.

Its mediocrity has been regularly exercised, but rarely, not many are to disregard the first impression that has been lurking inside their thoughts. Very few are those who are to delve deep over the first impression that they have attached to a thing or an individual. Some people practice individuality nowadays; they tend to swerve away from the usual likings and norms of a common people. and having a decent front can be practiced to be used in necessary circumstances such as public relation activities, interviews or employment. Thus, first impression may not be a good thing at times. We can easily isolate a person that are of not the same kind or do not belong to a group, we could identify a person by his education or just simply point out an educated person that has no discipline.

First impressions are just a temporary identification card, if I may, for each individual. Unless there's a need of confidence or self-esteem in a situation, I present myself confident and able. But for the everyday living, I keep myself silent and more of a listener. It is not to give an impression to someone that I am cold or dull, it is just the way I want to show others who I truly am. Though, the truth is, I am a lot more silent and listening is all I am enjoy doing above all. Others find that boring... and so was I at some of the times. On freshmen years, I was mistaken to be braggy, arrogant, and a rascal because of the way I stare. And I had proven them wrong.

People's first impression last even we had proven it wrong as it goes. Though some  impression may be  a complete opposite of what we really are, any individual would tell us saying that this was it like when they saw us, they heard us, and talked to us.  There would be no fast way of changing our first registration to people; at any rate, there is no better way of doing so other than if they do want to know us. There are some who knew themselves very well who really don't show who they are; impressions are all we can bind to that person, and impression is all that is left for us to ponder. People would have to see the everyday us to prove or to reject what they believe who we are. There would be no hastened way of doing this so it would take more patience and determination if one wants to know the real them.

We could not be greater or less then who we believe we are. If we got the attention of somebody, just stick with it; just make sure that we act what is necessary and according to our age. Mess around and ask an apology if that would be a grievance to someone; do good and try to be consistent.

Individuals who knew us for a petty amount of time might know us the way we have shown them. They would hold on to that idea on how they build a miniature us inside their heads. They would not believe a bit of kindness or a pound of anger we would display because all that are running in their mind is the miniscule representation of us... when they first tried to know us. Just do what we believe is right, just do what we believe is punctual. Right things are the only actions we should always do and we will do that with no instruction from no one.

It is not an obligation to act or move the way the masses want us to be. It is not a responsibility to act or move the way the community would like us to do; the fad, the trends, because in the first place, we are being a phoney; a mere pretender. Just act your years and act good. Individuals who eventually know us would be enlightened bit by bit when they take the responsibility to understand us. One might know us for being vague; let them be. Just be what we really are, what we really want to be. Let us just have a steadfast statement of what we really are and what are our thoughts about, and eventually, they would prove themselves wrong. Let them know the good or the more goodness in us because it is what that really matter. Prove to them that what little they know about a person would be just a granule of a unsolicited part of the whole. A wholeness of a good or a greater; of bad or the worst.

Practice to be ourselves at all times. It would be very uneasy for us to move according to what other people know of who we are. Act out what you wanted to be, but do it responsibly and according to the norms and the disciplined way the society accepts it. A first impression clinging in our name and our person would be a great tool on how people can understand us. If an individual put a bad mark onto our forehead, we can do things to make them see we are better; if they put a good mark onto our forehead, we can still tell them “it is not our best.” And it would take seven seconds or a lifetime.