Judgement, People, and Opinions

so, I've been thinking about judgement. judging people, mostly. if someone wears all black, you give them the label "emo" or "goth". they wear tight clothes and hang around guys, she's a "slut". I wonder sometimes, why do we listen to the stereotypes? people are layers andy layers of secrets. you can never really know a person. Veronica Roth wrote "you believe you know them [people], that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. you will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them anyway". people will let you down. that is one of the certainties of life. but sometimes, there are moments when people are all that's left. when they support you through the hardest times and you learn to rely on your own understanding. and, when you learn to do that, you become empowered. gifted with self-sufficiancy and independence, you seem to understand things. and people, if your lucky. I think that what stops a lot of people from doing this, from achieving this, if fear. fear of actually trusting people that you used to judge. and it really is scary. but the reward is worth it, I think.