Have you ever heard the saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover"? Many of us have, but choose to ignore it. I, myself, have as well. Why shouldn't I? I have done so all my years and never has a book disappointed me in my life. Unfortunately it came to me just today that maybe it's not just a book they are talking about but a person as well. You see, we label a person right away by just looking at them. Whether they are smart, nice, mannered, rich, poor, etc. and we never choose or given it much a thought that this book cover has a story behind it.
A book just like any other thing that is created is beautiful. Never is one thing exactly like another. Never is a book the same exact story like another, and that is what makes a book special. But this world has gotten ridden of this concept of being different is ok. No longer is being unique, one of a kind, or us is enough. No. And just like books, humans are scanned and proceed as a category. We can't seem to bear the thought of finding a new thing and give it its self worth, no. We have to compare it to another thing and try to categorize it to what it would be or become over the years. Books are beautiful because they are who they are and have a beginning and a end to which they are tied to and cannot be taken back, because only one person can change that.
We as people need to be in charge of who we are. We as people need to give ourself the value that we have earned. We as people are a book ready to be read and be understood. Like in a book ,Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Vera fights to be a person who she believes is going to be her future. Her mother was a stripper and her father a alcoholic. Sure her mother was only a stripper for a year and her father quit drinking after she was born seven months later. But she herself thinks that the people they were, her parents, is the type of person she will become. I mean she's already drinking, but unlike her father she is smart and as for her mother footsteps she hasn't really had a boyfriend yet at age 17. People around her her look at her as a classy girl, or so her deceased ex best friend Charlie thinks so anyways, and a girl who is perfect. Living in a big home, owning a car, and never once a wild teenager. But the house feels empty because her mother left her and her father at age 12, her father is very cheap, has a questionable drinking problem, has a unlabeled guy in her life in which she makes out occasionally, and her ex best friend haunts her so she can clear his name. Nothing like what people say she is. Vera Dietz is nothing to whom people think she is and never will be, but that is the beauty behind it all.
Although being a equal to everyone else is not bad and keeps you quite safe it does not give a value to yourself. What is a life's worth if it does not do something different than the life standing next to it? A book has a value because it gives a impact, and it doesn't matter if that impact only affected one life at least it made a difference to one person.
A book is beyond its cover. It does have a story to tell. It does have purpose, and just like a book we as well do. So by judging a book by its cover we are already limiting the book itself of its worth. Not getting to know, understand it, and simply listen to what it says gives that book no value at all. People need to understand that everyone and everything thing has a precocious gift to give. It only takes one person to actually acknowledge it to receive the gift and give it its true value, and that makes a big difference.
