The first impression

What was your first impression of your best friend or other half? Can you still recall this vague first meeting you had?

First impressions last. Is that true?

I don’t buy into first impressions. No, I am not such a saint that I simply peer into the atmosphere behind a new acquaintance. Physical appearances have a weaker magnetic pull at me. A person can be physically attractive and that would usually lure lingering looks at his or her appearance, and I am no exception. Yet, what I bring back with me after that brief or first meeting would be a certain feel or thought about the person.

Laughingly, for all the rational being I am, I actually view a person based on hunches.

Some folks are charming and have great social skills, which puts everyone at ease when faced with the awkward first meeting and endears them to new friends. Some folks are simply tongue-tied and shy away into the background when propped up at the acquaintance table. At many times, don’t you wish you just had a magic wand to wave yourself into the air?

Yes, some people just put me on the pricks, and I feel like a one-legged bird constantly juggling the walk in the air. The comfort level is simply non-existent.

For some, the sense of distance just never narrows, either with time or more understanding (or an attempt to). So I may just as well be on the other side of the bubble peering into the party.

With a few people, there is distance, and there is time. Yet there is warmth and understanding. In a cramped world with little space and time, there is an impetus to expend the resources to know, understand, and share.

Perhaps we all have a certain bandwidth wired into us. All we need is to find the right frequency to tune in to.