connection

Seems we are all trying to connect with somebody or something all the time. Whether it be the abstract idea and concomitant rush of pleasure, or the sense of knowing someone else, we will run ourselves ragged in the pursuit of connection. Give me something other than myself, right? But still one has to accept that oneself is part of what ever it is you're trying to connect with. So when I'm perceiving others I am perceiving myself...in a way, or at least in a certain dimension. You see in others what you are capable of seeing at the time of perception.

I've always liked Johari's window as an aid to understanding the interpersonal: