WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT WHAT YOU GET

Through Divine Providence G-d Taught Me a Powerful Lesson.

My friend and I were shopping in a mall  that  I rarely shop in. It's far and I'm not usually successful there.
While shopping in one particular store I saw someone who looked very familiar.
"Where have I seen her before, why does her face look so familiar? She clearly wasn't religious. She was wearing a tank-top and shorts. Her American long blond hair was clipped up and was very attractive. "Where would I know her from?" I kept asking myself.

My friend and I continued shopping, hopping from one store to the next. It was getting late and my friend and I were in our last store. While in the dressing room I heard my friend say to someone. "No, I'm sorry."
I wonder who's she's talking to. I exited the dressing room with my clothes piled in my hands.

"Was there a cell-phone in there? Someone just came looking for hers, apparently she lost it in this store" my friend said. "No, there was none in there, but maybe we can help her, did she leave already?" "She just left a second ago, she's probably still in the store."

We quickly left the dressing room and made our way through the store."There she is." my friend said pointing towards the girl. I froze. It was the girl who looked so familiar, the one I saw in the other store. We approached her and asked her if we could help her. She was very appreciative and thanked us.

We tried calling her cell phone a few times hoping to hear it ring. She was very sweet and made us feel so good that we helped her even though we didn't find her cell phone. The whole time I was trying to place her face with some memory of how I knew her. After talking a little bit she thanked us again and we said goodbye.

On the way home from the mall it was really bothering me.

"I'm telling you I've seen her before." I told my friend "Where do I know her?"

Later that night it was still bothering me when it suddenly hit me. She was one of the nurses in the hospital on the floor I did my clinicals on. I quickly called my friend and told her. She was so relieved. Now I knew why she looked so familiar.

When I saw her during my clinicals I remember thinking to myself that she was clearly not a nice person. I had her all summed up. She was arrogant, aloof, a snob, selfish and not caring. I don't think I saw her smile once in the weeks I was there.

I even wondered why she was a nurse.

This was all an assumption I made without saying one word to her in the hospital. It's just what I perceived of her. AND BOY WAS I WRONG.

Not until I met her in the mall and actually spoke to her did I get a completely different picture. She may be quiet. (She may not be a morning person. My clinicals were at Four AM) She may give off a different IMPRESSION.

G-d taught me a lesson that day. We are so quick to sum people up, and we are so sure of it to the point that we'll even take action on our assumptions or vice-versa.

DON'T ACT ON ASSUMPTIONS.
WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET!
A PERSON IS MUCH MORE THAN WHAT THEY SEEM.