“Your first impressions when you meet someone are always right.”
Do you agree with this statement?
Write your essay giving your opinion using examples from your own
experience.
I feel that the statement can be both right and wrong. I agree with it, although I think that in
particular cases first impressions are not the right ones.
Firstly, I believe that the quote can be true, because when I see someone for the first time, I
have impressions, which reflect very often the idea that I have of a person when I get to
know them.
Infact, I usually become friend of people, that I have considered nice since the first time I
saw them.
On the other hand, the statement can also be false, since I had some experiences, which
taught me that sometimes first impressions can lie about the real personality of a person. For
example, when I first saw one of my current best friends, I thought that she was unpleasant
and I did not want to get to know her better.
It is also true that it is hard to abandon our first impressions, since they get easily stuck in
our mind. In fact, we need less than one second to develop an idea about someone. For this
reason we sometimes have prejudices, which can give us a wrong idea of someone. For
example, when we have a first good impression about someone, we tend to interpret all of
the other behaviour of the person in a good way; and vice versa in the case we have a bad
first impression.
To conclude, I believe that the statement could be true, nevertheless we have to remember
that first impressions can also mislead us. Therefore, I believe that we should really know a
person, before judging them.
