Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Outer appearence vs. Inner side

Two Violins were being sold at an auction. The first violin had gorgeous looking design and appearence with a shiny body. On the other hand, the other violin was old and dusty and it looked like an old junk. Now, the people at the auction all desired to buy the first violin with a good appearence at a high price rather than the old one.
Before the auction started, each of the violins were played. However, the first violin did not sound good and it was sqeaky and annoyed the customers at the auction. When the second violin was played, a gorgeous melody spread througout the auction hall and touched everyone at the auction. As a result, the second violin was sold at a much greater price than the first one did.
We tend to view people the way the people at the auction viewed at the two violins. We tend to judge people and start making assumptions just by looking at the outer appearence of them. I used to judge people by outer appearence also. When I first came to the Ohio State University, I met a guy who looked like a total nerd, so I decided he would not be a playful and a fun guy t hang out with. My friends and I did not hang out with him at all at the beginning of the year. However, after we got to know him better, we found out that he had a really good personality and was exciting to hang around with him.
It is difficult to not judge people by outer appearence, but we should always keep in our mind that a person coul be totally different from how he or she looks like on the outside.
Appearence is the first thing you can know about a person, but outer appearence does not make up who the person is. In fact, the inner side and the personalities of a person have a much more significant role in determing what kind of a person he or she is.
Since the outer side of a person is the first thing we see of a person, it is easy to have prejudice about them and judge people by our own opinions about them. But can outside image really define who a person is? The answer to this question is no. In fact, outer appearence does not define much who a person really is. What defines them is their personalities and their inner side of them.

1 comment:

  1. That is a really interesting example of how humans value different traits. It really puts into perspective how insignificant looks and appearances are in relation to the value of a person.

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