Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

By Lucas Dawn

It’s easy to judge someone, but it’s harder to be judged. In Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, author Lucas Dawn provides an in-depth look at the subject of human judgement. It’s human nature to judge others, but you never know what’s going on behind the scenes.

Based on a variety of her life experiences, Lucas offers her perspective on everything from people, to animals and kids, women and men, politics and religion, welfare, love and money, language and nationality, and heritage.

At times humorous, Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover provides a host of examples and stories showing how a rush to judgement often turns out to be incorrect. Lucas shares the lessons she’s learned throughout her lifetime.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: May 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781480889286

Lucas Dawn

Lucas Dawn bases her life philosophy on being a good and decent person. She started this view point when she was young becoming a Brownie and a Girl Scout. She was giving blood to the American Red Cross since she needed parental consent. She is a daughter, a sister, a wife and a Mom to a rescue dog. She is a Master Gardener and donates vegetable and time to multiple organizations, including the Senior Center, Churches and needy families. She has worked as an administrative assistant for fifteen years and now five years in sales and as a marketing assistant.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-8927-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-8928-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020905398

Archway Publishing rev. date: 4/24/2020

Foreword

Immediately following, you will find a concoction of words that I dedicate to my mother, Mary Emma, who was a beautiful woman inside and out. Reading books was her passion and she could read a whole book in one day and I’m talking about a substantially lengthy book. It would take me six months to read the same book. I’m a work in progress.

She taught me my first words and from that point on, I never stopped talking. I have always had a lot to say and I finally wrote it down on paper with a little humor mixed along the way.

Mom owned a library literally of all kinds of work from mysteries to love stories to cookbooks. She collected books for over sixty-three years. She knew or pretended she knew the answer to every question I ever had growing up in New Jersey. From a young age, I always thought she was the smartest person I would ever know. I have so many unanswered questions and I can’t remember half of what I already asked.

Find out everything you can from your mother and frankly, your father or any other older relative. As always, don’t judge a book by its cover.

W hen you see an old man with a young woman, do you judge? When you see a fat man with a thin woman, do you judge? When you see a black man with a white woman, do you judge? Should you judge? What gives you the right to judge a book by its cover?

When you see an old man with a young woman, maybe he is not as old as he appears. Maybe she is not as young as she appears. You can’t help who you fall in love with and that’s a fact.

It only seems worse when you are young. If you are eighteen years old and love someone thirty-three years old, that seems drastic. If you are fifty and someone is sixty-five years old, it doesn’t seem as bad. Why? It is the same exact thing. Don’t judge a book by its cover.

When I see an old lady dying her hair blonde and wearing tight clothes, I think, she is trying to be young again. I don’t have the right to think that way, but that is where my mind goes, although I shouldn’t think that way.

Maybe she likes blonde hair and tight clothes. Or her husband just left her and she is trying to get a new man. There could be a million reasons why she wants to dress that way and dye her hair. Maybe she just gained a lot of weight in a short amount of time and cannot afford a new wardrobe.

At my age, past fifty, I don’t think I’ll be having any cosmetic work done, but I will continue to wear makeup. When I get more wrinkles, I will wear more makeup. I will get old gracefully with layers of makeup on my face and just smile. A smile always looks better than a frown. Even if you are having a bad day, if you smile, you’ll make someone else’s bad day better. I know I prefer to be surrounded by happy people, rather than grouches. I’ve seen enough grouches in my lifetime already to fill up the Grand Canyon. Maybe it has not been that many.

I’m sure we are all guilty of judging. Where do we learn that horrible trait? One day, there was this old man with a dirty face wearing dirty overalls who sat down at a table in my section while I was waitressing. He was very pleasant, as was I and he put in his order for his food.

After he ate his meal, a good and plenty waitress always asks the customer if they want dessert, but he beat me to it. He asked for some dessert before he was through with his meal. He was a hungry man.

I judged a book by its cover and thought; I hope this guy has enough money to pay for his meal. Most people would think, oh she is just worried about her tip. That is not true. I was worried about how hard that man had to work today to get that dirty. You don’t get that dirty sitting on the couch.

He not only paid for his costly, but delicious meal, he left me a five dollar tip. This hard working man doesn’t know how he made my day by leaving me a five dollar tip. Later on I found out his name is John. Thanks, John!

It almost brought tears to my eyes, but it made me think twice about something. The people who come in the restaurant that look, act and say they have money, hold on to it tight with both hands. They leave a two dollar tip for waiting on two, three and sometimes four people or more instead of a single person. This makes no sense to me or does it?

People with a lot of money are so stingy, no stingy sounds too nice. What is worse than stingy? People with a lot of money are greedy. Greed makes people want to keep all of their money and not want to share it with anyone.

I generally try and tip over the fifteen percent that is