What's Stopping Me?

Do people really live by the phrase “Don’t judge a book by its cover”? Since usually our first impression of someone we meet for the first time is dictated by the way they look (physically), talk, and dress. And please don’t kid yourself and say “i don’t do that” cause everyone does, its a natural instinct to automatically make certain assumptions about things. “That guy/girl looks hot!”, “That smells weird”, blah blah blah. The only problem with these assumptions are that they may prevent us from doing certain things such as, meet new people, try new foods, experience other cultures. In my short gay teen life i’ve realized that i’ve made some very bad impressions and experienced some bad impressions from others, but most of those bad impressions became my friends. And i know that they judged me harshly and i judged them the same way at first, but we gave each other a chance and found that we have a lot in common, maybe not being homosexual, but we like the same TV shows or eat the same foods. For instance, my best-friend’s  brother, didn’t really like homosexuals and tried to avoid them as much as possible. And so apparently i don’t look homosexual, since most people believe that homosexuals dress super flamboyant all the time. and he’d known me to very caring and protective of his sister and when i told him i was gay, he didn’t care. He only cared about his sister being safe from idiots trying to get at her, even though she is crazy strong and beats up people for me, he still wanted her to be protected and me being me….i.e. not flamboyant…. he felt safer with me being her best friend even though i’m gay. It just goes to show appearance may put off people, and here comes the cliche, but the only thing that matters is whats on the inside.