A Principle Worth Keeping

In my opinion, one principle that is important to live by and keep, is to see beyond the outside. Merriam- Webster defines principle as “a moral rule or belief that helps you know what is right and wrong and that influences your actions”.  In society, we often judge each other, mostly based on what’s on the outside, and we fail to look within. This influences us to make wrong decisions. A lot of people associate actions like this with the phrase “to judge a book by its cover”. I think our generation has become particularly susceptible to this do to the heavy influence of technology and social media. Sometimes, before we ever meet a person, we come across their instagram or twitter, due to mutual friends. As we begin to scan the page of photos or tweets, we start to form an opinion on them, without ever meeting them. Whether or not this opinion is good or bad, we still fail to see beyond, and have judged them by their “cover”. I think this is flawed and that it is very important to see beyond the outside, because it is very rare that the outside tells the whole story.