(53) pet peeve

I absolutely hate it when a person decides that he or she doesn’t like someone just because of what someone else has said about them. Like when someone already has a preconceived notion about you, they won’t give you a chance. Or they’ll at least be looking out for more reasons to justify their hate. That has happened so many times to me, and sometimes I think I may do that myself, but I’ve thought about it and I never let someone else’s opinion of a person cloud mine. You don’t have the right to judge someone without knowing them personally, because you have no idea what they’re like. The people I dislike are almost always people who dislike me first, with no particular reason for doing so. There have been people with bad reputations that I’ve defended, because they hadn’t given me any real reason to not like them, but there have also been people who just instantly get on my nerves because they treat me like they know I’m a horrible person, when I’m really not. I personally believe that the only way you can fairly weigh a person’s character is by getting to know them well enough to fairly say that you know for a fact that they possess a certain trait. If not, the next best thing is to have had at least one decent conversation with them to get a feel of what they’re like. There are some people that give off bad vibes the very first time you talk to them, and that’s totally justifiable. But automatically writing someone off just because of what you’ve heard about them is so wrong, and people who do that irk the hell out of me.