You know, sometimes when I feel attracted to someone, and she seems really special, I look around. There are the couples, younger and older. There are... everywhere... the people. And just about every person started this way, as someone feeling someone was special. And most of the people don't seem special. Every jerk, every racist, every murderer - they all started as someone having the hots for someone. Or, pretty much all of them. And if some started some other way - say as IVF - it probably doesn't correlate much with who they are themselves.

You feel a person is really special, and they are - but that's just because everyone is. You want to believe this person is extra - better, smarter, kinder, more aware, healthier, stronger, more determined, funnier, perennially cuter - than the average person. And... is s/he? Maybe it's all an illusion, and you're just looking at another one of the jerks and fools - special, yes, but that's because we all are. And you - you yourself, you're another one of the jerks and fools. So why would anyone find you special, except through an illusion, or simply because we all are special?