'The Way You Dress is the Way You will be Addressed'

Basically, this truism refers to people meeting for the first time. Human minds try at first acquaintance to situate friends to a particular stratum in their perceived society through apparel, speech, gaiety, smell and other noticeable features before further familiarity will unravel those assumptions wrong or right.

But really, does a 'gallas' hair-cut make the person a 'yahoo-boy'? Does wearing 'jalamia' with beard make some one holy? Infidelity is not in mini-skirts and fidelity may not necessarily reside in macro either, but the errant and frequent visitation to the temple they guide. Thus, when those assumptions are wrong, we say "appearance can be misleading" whereas (in fact) it's our prejudiced mind that is myopic in judging.

At a time we are accidentally right, another truism comes to mind: your speech not only appearance is your acute advert or portent disservice. Anyway, for a person that understands that life is a service, you will position yourself for how you want to be perceived and addressed. Not everyone will have a chance, after that first acquaintance, to interact further. You may have only one appearance to convince or confuse that person for life. Therefore armed with the psychology of perception, attraction and people's rigid myopic-ness, I do rather dress the way I want to be addressed.

The shortfall: the encumbrance: the lacuna is that our minds judge based on our 5ive senses. Look good, smell nice, feel good, taste nice, sound appealing, you will be a good sale. Same goes for any kind of market.

--Toonday

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