Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

— William Shakespeare

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Attraction is not a report on what is actually in front of you. It is assembled somewhere behind your eyes, out of hope and memory and what you happen to need at the time, and then handed to you as if it were plain sight. That is why two people can look at the same face and see different things entirely.

When you find yourself certain about someone very early, treat the certainty as information about you rather than about them. Give it a few weeks of ordinary days. Notice what you have filled in without checking, and let the person surprise you instead.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who do you see as you imagine them rather than observe?

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