Thursday, September 18, 2008
Oedipus
In the book Oedipus they say an interesting quote, "time alone reveals the just man-the unjust you can recognize in one short day". I think it is saying that it takes an extended period of time to see how a person really is, but it only takes a day to see some things about someone that aren't characteristics that they really have. They could be shy or having a bad day. What you would see in someone in just one short day isn't the same as you would see in one long month. People aren't their full self when they just meet someone. It takes a while to know how a person really acts and thinks. When I first met my friend Justin, I didn't know how he acted. After a while knowing him I can tell that he gets mad a lot and I can tell when he's going to get mad. If someone says the wrong thing to him he gets really angry. I see why he gets mad, but I think he takes it too far. What I also saw in him is that whenever he lands a trick he is trying to do on a skateboard, it completely withdraws all of his anger. Now that I know him so well, I kind of think similar to him and can tell what he thinks most of the time. I wouldn't know any of these things about him if i had only knew him for one short day.
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So then my question is this: what makes someone reach past that bad first impression for a more complete picture of who that person is?
I've never figured this out- I try not to base my judgment of someone on my first exposure to them, because I know that I can leave a pretty lousy first impression- but everyone can't be taking this precaution, can they?
The flip side to this quote is that even if I do everything right upon my first meeting with someone, it still rests on my shoulders to continually prove myself- to show that person that I am, indeed, the lovely person they suspected I was initially. And man, that's tough.
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