Blindfolded

How do you see others?
Do you see them for how the dress or the way they style their hair?
Do you see them for how tall, short, fat, or thin they are?
Do you see them for the color of their skin?
What if you couldn’t see them at all?
Whether we want to admit it or not, we all make judgments based on the appearances of others. Some people use these initial judgments to define how they will treat this person, others brush them aside and make new ones based on personality and character. Either way the judgments are made. If you were blindfolded for just one day, imagine how differently you would act towards everyone you met. There would be no opportunity to “judge a book by its cover”; you would have to rely solely on the content. I believe the things a person could learn about themselves and human nature as a whole by simply meeting one group of new people while blindfolded could be absolutely invaluable. We are all guilty of making unjustified assumptions solely based on shallow observations. One can only hope that one day we can all learn to see each other as if we are wearing a blindfold, and allow our opinions to remain untouched by simple issues of aesthetics.