Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover

    I have always been a shy person and have never really been too great at making friends.  In my junior high years many people mistook me for being stuck up because I didn't really talk to anyone. I was just extremely shy and suffered from social awkwardness. When I attended Lighthouse Christian Academy for 6 years, it really helped me to open up to people--mostly because my school was so small. The first couple of years I was still my shy self, but I gradually began opening up more and more until I was pretty much friends with everyone in the highschool. My Senior and Junior year were probably my favorite years because I got along with all of my classmates and we ALWAYS had fun. There was literally never a dull day.
    Now that I am in college and in an environment where there are WAY more people than I'm used to, I am feeling a little lost and confused. I'm so used to going to a small school with familiar faces, and where everybody knows everybody.  I am going back to my old ways where I judge people on the outside, without even getting to know them first. Now this doesn't mean that I am bad-mouthing every person I see inside of my head. In fact, I am not really bad-mouthing anyone. I am just placing people into stereo-types I guess. My mom always told me not to judge someone by how they look or seem on the outside, because you never know what that person may be like. She pointed out that a girl at her work that I had seen a couple times when I came to visit thought that I was "preppy" and maybe a little "stuck up". (I can't help but to feel that she was only thinking that because I wouldn't join her sorority..) Anyway, I am probably one of the least preppy people I know, and I am not stuck up either. So it goes to show that if you are judging someone, they may be judging YOU as well. And 9 times out of 10 your perception of someone is wrong.