First Impressions
I know what I thought when I first saw all of you but I don't know what you thought when you first saw me.
My first day at orientation I was scared. Scared of pretty much everyone and everything. I saw a room full of people who looked much more accomplished and prepared for life than I would ever even hope to be.
I felt inadequate. Like I was in the wrong room, the wrong city, that I might have been living the wrong life.
Nothing has really changed in my view, I still wake up most days and come to class while looking around and thinking of only my own shortcomings, and then I wonder, does anyone else feel the way I do?
Did their first impressions change of me? Did I stay the scary person or the mean person? Did I look like an idiot the first day and you still think I am?
It's okay whatever anyone thought about anyone, sometimes those first impressions are the ones that are lasting.
My only hope is that we begin to prepare for our second year together we throw away those first impressions and focus on making new ones with each other. Like it or not we are all on this journey together, we came in together and we will leave the same way.
We don't all have to get along but we should all have respect and put aside those impressions you have of other people or those you may have about yourself.
Starting this year lets all set out to be better versions of ourself than we were a year ago. I know I am not the same person and my own impressions and perceptions have changed a million times over.
My first day at orientation I was scared. Scared of pretty much everyone and everything. I saw a room full of people who looked much more accomplished and prepared for life than I would ever even hope to be.
I felt inadequate. Like I was in the wrong room, the wrong city, that I might have been living the wrong life.
Nothing has really changed in my view, I still wake up most days and come to class while looking around and thinking of only my own shortcomings, and then I wonder, does anyone else feel the way I do?
Did their first impressions change of me? Did I stay the scary person or the mean person? Did I look like an idiot the first day and you still think I am?
It's okay whatever anyone thought about anyone, sometimes those first impressions are the ones that are lasting.
My only hope is that we begin to prepare for our second year together we throw away those first impressions and focus on making new ones with each other. Like it or not we are all on this journey together, we came in together and we will leave the same way.
We don't all have to get along but we should all have respect and put aside those impressions you have of other people or those you may have about yourself.
Starting this year lets all set out to be better versions of ourself than we were a year ago. I know I am not the same person and my own impressions and perceptions have changed a million times over.
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