It takes as little as one tenth of a second to form a first impression of someone which encourages bias and labelling. “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is a saying constantly stressed on and yet in just one tenth of a second, your first impression determines how you are treated and viewed. Imagine, the first day of school, you come to school in your pajamas with greasy hair, bad breath, and sandals. Many, if not all the people in the high school, would avoid you as well as having an immediate perception that you are a dirty, lazy, and uncaring individual. You may have a justifiable reason for why you came into school looking like that, but who’s going to listen to you? It is shocking how quickly prejudice and preconceived notions of someone can come to hinder us from seeing people in an unbiased way. Just last weekend, I was on the sky train headed towards Richmond to meet up with my buddies when this ragged unkempt bearded old man hopped on board and dropped a black dirty bag and ran off. In his few seconds of absence, I began having paranoid thoughts about what could be inside this bag. Perhaps the bag contained money, maybe illegal substances, no that couldn’t be it. A darker more sinister thought crossed my mind, maybe it was a knife or could it possibly be a gun? I feared for my safety and began heading for the sky train doors and that’s when I saw him. Not my buddies, but the old man who was coming back on the sky train with another black bag. I noticed a Translink employee on the sky train platform and asked him why the man was moving all his black bags. He told me that the man is being evicted from sleeping in the train station and he’s relocating. For the next few minutes, the train doors made the annoying beeping noise, until the old man finally moved all his black bags on board. From this story, we can see some key truths about human nature. Would I have been afraid if a young lady dropped a pink fluffy purs