People Are Much More Glamorous When You Don't Know Them

This has proven true to me time and time again. A couple times in high school when I started hanging out with the "popular" guys. A couple times after high school when a heart throb finally discovered how awesome I was and I discovered how awesome he wasn't. Not that he was a bad guy, he just wasn't the person I thought he was and I now see him un romantically. 


It makes so much sense. We see people from a distance and make up anything we want about them. The lead singer in a band, a friend of a friend's brother, the motorcyclist that drives passed you on your way to work. Whatever the case may be, in reality they're nerds, or jerks, or just un appealing. We act so strange around those people. I try not to be intimidated by people, strangers, but it's hard when you've made up illusions about them. I need to remind myself of the few that I couldn't imagine myself ever interacting with and now they're great friends.