March 14, 2006 - 2:42
If I see an attractive person, I try very hard not to look at them. Today, I realized that I do this with an air of accommodation. Like I am doing attractive people a favor, by not contributing to the swarms of gazes they take in throughout a typical day.
Or I guess it is a respect issue, in the same way I wouldn't look at the man with the rotting nose at Rite Aid yesterday. (It was totally decayed, but still festering. I could have seen into his face had I tried.) But that's not really the same, is it? I mean, what if nobody ever looks at him?
I guess if I were more socially graceful, I would have looked into his eyes.