Are you one of these people?

When I was walking back from class today, I happened to hear out of the corner of my ear, these two girls in front of me were carrying on a conversation about another girl that was walking the opposite direction. As I heard them say "ew that girl is hideous, why is she with that hot guy"? It made me start to think about how judgmental people are in the world today. We all like to think that we judge people fairly but obviously this is not true because judging people based on their external factors is not fair, when they usually can't help there appearance. Our first impressions of people usually have a strong impact on the way we judge a person and it is sometimes hard to change our minds when we already have made misconceptions. Whether we like to admit it or not, we judge people every day based on their looks or what they are wearing. You never know what a person is like if you just judge them by the way they look because honestly everybody has been through hard times in their life and if you don't take the time to get to know them then you’re just hurting yourself. The external factors that we most often judge people by are skin color, clothes they wear, weight, age, and gender. Clearly it is hard to change our personal biases that impact our judgment, but this is becoming a big issue in our country. Our minds seem to quickly jump to conclusions about people with very little evidence of who they are. However, these conclusions can keep us from building healthy relationships with loving and intelligent people. I believe that as a human being we can overcome these tendencies by consciously doing so, whereas animals do not have that choice. It is up to us as young adults to change our preconceptions of people and learn to open ourselves up to a broader range of people. It is very interesting for me to walk from class to class every day and hear people’s judgmental point of view because we don't know who they are.