Looking in the mirror

Today I was amused to watch a young peewee hopping around on the wing-mirror of a car, desperately trying to get in contact with that "other" peewee it could see, but which kept disappearing as it moved about.  Then it would fly to another car chasing its own image, but with no reply to its amorous cries.

Which made me think about some human behaviour which bears great similarity.  There are times we think we are relating to other people, truly seeing and understanding them and their situation.  But in fact we are projecting our own views on them, seeing ourselves in a mirror rather than the other in reality.  Real dialogue is impossible, and our encounter becomes  as meaningless as that of the peewee on the car mirror.

I guess the moral might be, that if what we see and hear is too much like ourselves it is time to check for the mirror.