Impressions

The reply to my last post put me thinking! Impressions people have... how do people get impressions? Why must you think that this guy is crazy, this one studious!?

They say, first impressions are the best impressions or something! Is it always true? I have never believed in that. And I have also never cared what people think about me first time up! Maybe that's the reason that a lot of people have varied ('n I dare say, mistaken! ) impressions about me! And some of these do stick! Very much!

While on relaionships and impressions, I have often wondered...how often it is that you enter into a relationship just on first impressions....'n found out that it is not all that there is to it! There is something much more, something more than just what you thought on seeing the person! And how many times do you just compromise, just because you made the choice!? So can't you just wait that few seconds, wait to understand ... wait to form an impression?

My friend, Sravan says a boy and girl can never be just friends... 'n I still tell him they can! You only think you cannot be friends because you often enter into the friendship with an impression, an impression that you can be in a relationship with the other. Just take it as it comes, and you will realize when it's friendship and when it's love!

Impressions, by Ray Jennings puts this across beautifully.

"A lifetime can be likened to a lonely beach of sand.
a stranger makes a mark one day, an imprint of a hand"

That mark is an impression...and it is never a first time impression, it is never a quick decision! It is an impression over a longer time, an impression that lasts! Jennings concludes....

"Time does its best to wash away remembrances of those -
the ones we never meant to meet - the ones we never chose.
But as through some odd twist of fate these are the ones we cherish.
The time we spend with these such friends, will never, ever perish"

Friends ... as you will note above... can be either guys or gals.... but the important thing is the relationship is still friendship! Not love! Sparks do fly my friend Sravan, but only after some time. Not on first impressions, and never always between a guy and a girl...never always!

Chow!