Thoughts from Princeton

Cross out attraction and write guise. How many of us choose to be aware that the connection we feel with other people is frequently, more often, or even entirely coated in projection? The longer I live the more I observe that upon meeting and relating to people, subconsciously, the idea of what people represent to us, which is something we arrive at based on our perception, upholds a belief we have about ourselves, provoking feelings of attraction, repulsion, etc. I observe that this phenomenon, when treated like intimacy, completely allows us to scurry away from our fears, hiding in guises, hibernating in our own forbidden recesses.