Deceiving thoughts

Have your thoughts ever deceived you? Mine have. Especially those judgements which are taken at the first glance. They will force you to believe what you see is true. I will share one of my experience when I deceived my entire class and well, They were entirely opposite.

When a student starts a new class. He or she might many new friends and some old ones. Well, I was starting a new school. I have to make sure people consider me a good person. I also needed to make sure that I make friendship with the right sort of people.

When I first entered the class. I saw a slim tall boy sitting on the back seat. I casually went and sat on the first bench. I couldn’t risk looking back and even speak a word. My thoughts told me that he was the nerd. Reaching before me! I was supposed to be the first one in the class. Then came 4 other giggly girls. They seemed to realise that I was a new student. They also slipped glances at me as I did to them. After few moments, they casually cat walked towards me and put and hand front and told me ‘ Hi, I am Aarya (name changed). From the fact I have never seen you before, you are a new girl. Nice to meet you.’ She spoke these words quickly. She tried to show that she had an American accent but it was pretty obvious that she had got it from watching ‘FRIENDS’ or ‘Big Bang Theory’. My thoughts told me that she was one of the attitude girls and well. I replied keeping in mind my thoughts. ‘Hi. Your guess was accurate. I am new to this school. My name is Sarah (name changed). Nice to meet you.’ I made sure that I showed a Britain accent. I made sure to make it very fluent and didn’t try to initiate a conversation. 

Soon, then soon many others came. The smart one, the American one, the wimp, the athlete, the flirt, the handsome, the class crush, the cutesy, the foodie.

I would expand things much. But I was all wrong. Except for the mean girls. The cutesy was the American, the American was the cutesy, the nerd was the class clown and so on……

I know this didn’t make much sense but see it with your life. You daily meet people. On streets, you try and decide the personality and character of every person. At business meet you try to approximate the income of each person. At restaurants you even try to guess the bill of the other person.

These are judgement, I rather call it our ‘deceiving thoughts’. They are many times wrong and we must make sure they are not permanent in our mind. The old idiom must stay in our mind ‘never judge a book by its cover’ or as I call it ‘never let our deceiving thoughts find a place in our mind’,