The bitter truth: People judge book by its cover.

We humans have this hostile animal living within us. Maybe our superegos face it sometimes, but when it fails to control the animal, nothing but repugnance beholds the power and everything else gets disheveled. No doubt this animal affects the most important part of our human lives: our judgement. Failing to make a right judgement is the worst thing a human can do, because sometimes once it is done, you cannot go back and change it. It is so hard for even our own morality to handle our disconcerted mind, it is nearly arduous sometimes.

So while making judgement, do you have to judge a book by its cover or not?

Of course there is no rule to control your thoughts and how your brains work, so the answer is yes. Yes, you can. But sometimes you might have to let your superego take over when you speak the things hovering in your mind (you need to have a filter!), you need to make sure that those words are not irrelevant in the situations your are in.

Many philosophers and spiritual leaders are more likely to state that people should not judge a book by its cover, rather a they have to think about it carefully before making any judgments. Which is morally true and that is how a human should be like. But in this busy era of competition, they are compelled to choose a book by its cover. People don’t have time to venture through a book store and read every book’s synopsis, do they?

“You can easily tell a horrible book from a good book just by looking at the cover. You can easily tell a scary book from a light book just by looking at the cover. You can easily infer if a person is worth your time or not, not by looking at their cover but via communication skills. You don't have to get to know someone to understand if they are worth your time or not.” (debate.org, author: Unknown) .

Whoever wrote this, it made me feel that the person was a little more caustic, but it is the truth! Most of the time, we just look at a person and give them our time accordingly, rather than carefully judging him/her (though we have no clue what a person is going through, which is of course pretty bad). But again, we do judge people by how they look like or the way they act, this is just inevitable.

Let us take a moment with ourselves and listen to the deepest of our heart, and for one moment let us forget our superego. Think what a perfect human being would be like. Believe it or not but research has shown that majority of people tend to imagine the physical appearances of human being to be perfect, but then their superego rises up and their mind begins to think that a perfect human being is the one who is honest, with good heart or something else. (Maybe really less number of people do get the idea of a good heart though!)

Humans are full of wonderfulness and mysteries; it is really hard to understand human being and their nature. So it is also hard to accumulate everyone’s opinion in this and draw a nice conclusion. But according to what I have felt and many opinions I have studied, humans do judge a book by its cover.