Afterimage

[jimmyhoffa]

Sitting at my local coffee shop and watching the people go by yesterday, it occurred to me just how many faces those of us living in suburbia or cities see every day. Generally, they are the once-glimpsed faces of strangers never to be seen again. I saw a woman's face and looked away. An afterimage of her face remained briefly and then dispersed into a colourful shopfront. I wonder what sadness, what shame, what guilt, what hope, happiness or intelligence was behind those eyes and in her slightly worried expression. Like the afterimage of a bright light, every single face we see leaves an impression on us that once dispersed becomes assimilated into our unconscious and the collective reservoir of memory we call experience.

The real unconscious-negative afterimage may be an exploration of what I think and feel that others may intuit from my own face, my own expression, my own demeanour. How often do we project upon others those things we that we have buried deep within ourselves ?



Working at this coffee shop is a young woman who has a most beautiful face, both physically and in terms of her ambience and deportment. Does our reaction (and attraction) to a beautiful face underlie a beauty we hope to see within ourselves or that we can only embrace within ourselves through an emotional magnetic alignment towards an other's perceived and projected beauty ?



and ...

the antithesis of this sort of approach to relationships would have to be


and then for something totally irrelevant:



*toasted hoffa*




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"A pearl is a temple built by pain around a grain of sand." -- Kahlil Gibran

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

"It is the hole in the wheel which makes it useful." -- Lao Tzu
(where there is nothing, everything else is enabled)

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G.

[jimmyhoffa]

jimmyhoffa wrote: How often do we project upon others those things we that we have buried deep within ourselves ?


That's why hate is always self-destructive.
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"A pearl is a temple built by pain around a grain of sand." -- Kahlil Gibran

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

"It is the hole in the wheel which makes it useful." -- Lao Tzu
(where there is nothing, everything else is enabled)

emeraldsandash.blogpot.com

G.

[albedo1989]

`F*cking deep..... If we were all more aware of this it would make everyones day to day lives more peaceful