The Importance Of First Adressions

The old adjective “Never judge a book by its cover “applies to many situation. People tend instinctively base snap judgments on objects: such as cars, houses, towns, even clothing by looks alone. They decided the items worth by its outside appearance without observing the qualities of the object. People make the same snap judgments on people. At first glance, someone makes an assumption about someone based on looks without looking further into that person as an individual. First impressions do not bare the qualities about someone that make them special, overlooking someone due to a first impression, someone might be missing out on somebody who can change their life. At the age of fifteen, I was first relocated to a suburb of Nashville …show more content…
My teacher allowed me to finish my test, and before she pulled me outside to inform me that my Mom had just called and my twenty-eight year old cousin had just passed away. My emotions couldn’t be kept in line. What was a surprise to me at the time, Mrs. McCloud hugged me in that hallway and assured me for ten minutes that everything was eventually going to be okay. She had the teacher next door watch her class while she accompanied me to the office. She didn’t leave my side until my Mom and sister came to retrieve …show more content…
It was what she did while I was at the wake and funeral in New Jersey that changed my entire perspective of her. We were back in New Jersey, for at most twenty four hours, when we received a phone call from Mrs. McCloud to see if my immediate family was alright. She wanted to know if there was anything she could do for us to help us in our time of need. She asked my Mom if I would need anything to be done to help me when I returned to school the next week. My impressions of her was that she was always emotional distant and too focused. Her concern, made me realize she actually cared about her students. When I returned back to Tennessee and to school, Mrs. McCloud was the first person to seek me out. While she did give me a week’s worth of back school work, she told me to take my time completing it. She also offered to come in every morning at 7:15 when she didn’t have to be there until 7:45 to allow me the extra needed help to catch up. She made sure before every class, for the first week I was back to pull me aside and make sure I was okay, emotional as well as school wise. She was very encouraging that first week I was back, that was something I desperately