Sep 06, 2010 04:25
The stark divide between self and others is amazing. We strip away imperfections from our image of other people until a stylized caricature remains, be it positive or negative. Yet when we look to ourselves all we see are flaws magnified a thousandfold and it renders us incapable of loving ourselves.
Is that just me or are human minds just wired that way? Afraid to stay step out of line, adhering to the common denominator that is our milieu, afraid of being cast out for simply not fitting in?
Ah the human condition, I pity us all.