I think we’ve all experienced this to one degree or another.

It’s why I’m so baffled by people who can’t recognize it in others.

Yeah, maybe you wouldn’t let it go so far. But the process is familiar.

Why is it easier to justify another person’s irrationality as something completely foreign to your human experience rather than something familiar?

For me, it’s so much easier to say “they’re just like me if I were a little stupider, more insecure, and much more proud.”