Random thoughts I just had.

I'm at work right now, and I just had a weird thought. There is this line from the new mewithoutYou album, from the song "Bullet to Binary (pt. 2) that captures a lot of what I've been thinking about lately.

"...You project on her your inward scene
she's a blank external movie screen..."

Is it possible that we don't see people for who they are, but rather, for who they are only in relation to ourselves? I mean, that we only see the aspects of people that we see or do not see coinciding with our own existance. Example: Everytime I see a girl if I immediately think about whether I could date her or not. Better example: I don't hang out with anybody that I don't get some kind of mutual pleasure from.

If we only try and see ourselves in other people we will never be able to love them the way God does. We need to find a way to love them as wholey seperate beings. There is no point in constantly comparing ourselves to others or vice versa. We are not God; other people were not made in our image, or we in theirs, but the image of God. We project ourselves onto Him too though, that makes things difficult.