They tell us not to judge a book by its cover, not to judge the things that we do not know. They tell us to get to know someone before we form an opinion of them. Good advice in the eyes of most people, right? But if we are only to judge a book by its cover, a person by what is inside of them, how may we ever judge them, form our opnions about them. Most of the time, all that we ever see of someone is their outer front, their shell, their facade, their "cover". It is impossible to truly know someone. We compare ourselves to books, and yet people are more different than novels than a kitten is from an elephant. Now, books, books you can judge by the covers, by the summaries on the back. You can make your assunptions based upon these things, and then you can open them up, devour their contents, and see if those assumptions were correct. People are not like books. We show off our covers, our catchy titles, but when it comes down to it, people can't just open us up and look inside, reading whatever they wish. We cannot even know all aspect of ourselves. We aren't written in third person by an omnipotent storyteller. We don't come with plot summaries and climaxes and happy endings. People cannot read our thoughts, see our intentions. Even our best friends only read what we allow them to.

So how can we judge by what's inside?
When we will never know each other?
How can we see the selves we hide?
When we can't read past the cover?