Of course you judge a book by its cover. Don’t we all? We get attracted to the beautiful colors, art work, and photos of something or someone too perfect to be real. I follow many book lovers on Instagram, and they obsess over book covers. Instagram is a place to share the impeccable photos of your book collection arranged with other book themed items and flourishes. There are book themed scented candles, coffee, bookmarks, mugs, socks, funko pops, and other paraphernalia that reference favorite books. The posts are so delicious, you could eat them! In fact some of them have desserts. Great for a person trying to cut back on her sugar intake. I get fat just looking at them. LOL! I can’t keep up with the bookstagram fan photos. My posts rarely have pictures of expertly arranged books. I’m an Instagram failure with true photographers, but I do what I can. Most of my “reading” these days is audio books. I don’t have hard copies of special editions to photograph of my current or future reads. I have a small library of my favorites and that’s it. Please don’t GASP in horror bookstagrammers! I asked for a magical castle or lighthouse to transform into a library that is wall to wall books, but I guess the wish granters put that on back order. It's okay to admire the outside of something we know nothing about, because that is our first impression. If it pleases our senses we gravitate to it, but what about the exterior that isn’t super pretty? Do all gorgeous book jackets have wonderful content? Did you ever get disappointed by a book that had an awesome outside, but the story wasn't that great? Of course you have. You also probably read a book that you heard was great, but you wouldn’t have given it a try based on its outward appearance except that someone else recommended it. You ended up loving the story, but you may not share the cover on Instagram. Am I right?
Take your experience with books and use it towards people. Everyone has a story that may not be revealed with their covers. What you see on the outside is not always as it actually is. We all have our own journey. You can walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, and still have no clue what they are going through. People deal with identical traumas and joys differently. You can’t judge what a person is going through just because it appears one way to you. It’s time to look on the inside of the “book” and not just the outside. Don’t go with your first impression to form an opinion. You might be surprised what you will find.
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