Still judging by the outer cover

The distributor told me that whatever is said, people still judge the book by its cover, hence emphasising the need for a captivating eye-catching cover. Once the book cover caught the eyes, only then would the potential buyer make an attempt to browse through between its covers! Like the Malay proverb says, 'from the eyes to the heart' and 'what you do not know, you do not fall for' - 'dari mata terus ke hati', 'tak kenal maka tak cinta'.

In real life too, things are not much different. Sometimes, we are fooled by external appearances. A person can dressed in the nines in tandem with the latest in haute culture cities of world equally spankingly manicured, pedicured and groomed smelling like a rose garden. The enchantment stops short once the person open the gab, enough to give anybody  a heart attack! No, not because of their putrefying halitosis but the illiteracy and nincompoopery that they exude. Well, on the other hand, the most brilliant of mankind may be simply dressed. One who has the gift of the gab may have more things to hide than his mental inefficiencies just like a hottie who revealed too much has more than her flesh to cover!

It is all too easy to profess that beauty is in the inside and external captivation is skin deep, but how many of us are not guilty of stereotyping, profiling and judging the book by its cover?