The Perceptual Process

I personally, use to judge all the time. Everyone I would see or everything a person would do, I would automatically start judging in my head. I came to realize that I'm nobody to be judging so I just go on with my life and let everyone else go on with theirs.

I was a shift leader at the orange peel down on river road and I was in charge of training new employees whenever we got any new ones. So I'm taking orders and then this chick comes up to the register and she says, "I'm here for training." The first thing that popped into my head was that she wasn't going to last a week and that we weren't going to get along. I judged her on her looks, she had piercings everywhere and had a bunch of tattoos. I have no

idea why, but I just didn't like her.

When I first started training her, it was pure do this and do that, put this over there, throw this away. It wasn't till her second week there that we started to ask each other questions. Turns out, Jess is the nicest chick I've met to this day. We had so much in common, we're both from LA, into the same music, same outdoor activities. Got to meet her daughter and her whole family here in St George. She started getting close to everyone else as well. Eventually we were all a big happy employee family.

Ever since that experience, I try to be as open with everyone I meet. Turns out Jess wasn't the person I thought she was and now we're really great friends and I'm happy she's in my life. Never know if anyone else I meet who I don't know might be a close friend later on.