First Impression Is Not the Last Impression

First impression is NOT the last impression.

How often do we judge someone in just the first meeting? I strongly believe that first impression has a biggest impact about a person or any other thing on human beings. How often has it happened to you that you met a person for the first time and you make an impression about him/her in your mind? I would say, it happens every time. The behavior of the person in the first meeting is the first step which generally decides how we would treat the person whenever we meet him or her the next time. There is a lot to do with the first impression. For an author he can be a sought after author only when his first publication gets accepted and meets or exceeds the reader's expectations. For a film actor or director, it's the first film they work in creates an impression in the viewer's mind. For a player it's his first performance that can help a great deal to his chances of making it to the team. For a job seeker, it's his first impression during the interview that would help him get the Job. For a cricket batsman, it's the first ball that he receives from the bowler which decides how he is going to treat the bowler.

So, there are a lot of firsts in life which are really very important to create a lasting impression. However, first impression should never be treated as the last impression. There a various examples that can be cited to support this argument. It has happened so many times in my life that the person with whom I was not very impressed in the first meeting turned out to be very impressive in subsequent meetings. I have various examples of my friends, who have been helpful to me in the time of need, which I never thought would ever turn up when required, based on their first impression. If I talk about cricket, when I first saw Gautam Ghambhir play for India, I was not at all impressed. I felt like he would not be able to stay in the team more than a couple of tours. But, to my surprise he completely changed my impression and became the spearhead of Indian batting. The 20-20 world cup and then the test matches and finally even in the world cup, his display of gritty and never give up attitude had a large role which helped Indian team achieve the improbable feats. Same goes with Virat Kohli. He came on the scene as one arrogant spoilt youngster. But, when you see his performances, he has made me change my impression of him as a player. The great legend Amitabh Bachchan was written off after his first film Saat Hindustaani. But, his performance in Zanjeer as an angry young man completely changed is first impression. When we saw Ajay Devgan for the first time, who would have thought that he has got such brilliant acting talent.

If everyone is judged only on the basis of first impression and there would have been no second or third chances of improvement, we would have never seen such individual brilliances. So on a closing note; I would like to repeat that first impression is NOT the last impression. We should give it enough chances before we can get completely convinced about the impression of a person or anything else in life.

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When you meet someone, do you automatically assume and form opinions about who they are? Do you make assumptions in your head about that person and