Impression.

People have always told me, "you only get one opportunity to make your first impression, so make it good". I know it sounds really cliche, really obvious but I do have this question of why we need to make a good first impression in the first place.

Hello all, I'm the Earthian and I'll be really, really happy, if you called yourself one too.

And that's what people do, try to make the great first impression on people they meet for the first time. Like when meeting a potential partner, like when attending an interview, like when attending social gatherings where we might me be obligated to meet new people. These are just a few situations where we play our impression game. And let's be honest here, unless you're some super social hero who just is the type of guy that has no problem talking to people being the original person he is, you are most likely to put up a character that is not yourself.
And when you do put up this character that you really aren't, you're going to get nervous and are most likely to screw things up and make a big fool out of yourself.

I know this because I've been there and I've done that. Done that so many times even though the outcome was always the same. I was totally making the biggest fool out of myself and I was being a complete simpleton. Little did I know at that point that it totally isn't worth it. It's not worth it for two reasons, one of them being the truth that no matter how good of a person you act like you are, there will always be people who will make you feel weak, so you might as well be your true self. And the second reason is the fact that when you pretend to be someone that you're not in reality, you are degrading yourself. You feel incompetent with just who you are and create a character of your own to meet your needs. This created character, sooner or later, will get vanquished.
Note that I'm not asking you to not change yourself. In fact, I do want you to be a person who is willing to change, but the change I want you to undergo is progressive change that takes time and not an abrupt change that is not thought through.

Lots of love, peace.