The way we act and choose our friends in high school is pretty ridiculous. For example, liking someone for their looks, that's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. It's also highly misleading. The way I see it, each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack in places. And I mean, yeah once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And its only that time that people see each other for what they are, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. We don't see each other face to face, not until you see into each others cracks. Before that we just look at ideas of each other, like looking at a window shade, but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out. We often see too little of a person to be able to judge them adequately.
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