It’s funny, but already at 19 everyone looks familiar. The overwhelming feeling i have when i meet people now is not “Oh, a new person” but instead “Oh, someone who resembles person X in Y way.” I think this whole phenomenon first reared it’s familiar head over the summer while i was working at Orientation as a way for me to quickly associate my student’s faces if not their names. Sometimes it’s not even a face that i associate, but a haircut or a behavior, but either way it makes for a very uncomfortable sense of Deja-Vu when i meet new people as i found myself doing last night.
by krisis