Strangers

How do you know someone? Really. When you come down to it, how do you really know someone, you know? When do you really know someone? Maybe you get to know them less and less the more you spend time with them. Like you create your own person, out of mental papier mache, and the more layers you add, the less and less it is them that you know, the more it is the person you have created. Maybe that first impression is our one shot at true knowledge and it’s downhill from there. If we miss it, if we forget what it was like that one time, we have nothing left but a pretence.