What you see of people is like an iceburg. As large as an
iceberg appears above the water, below the water is a mile deep
of ice - a MOUNTAIN of ice that you can never see. Or like
bubbles in a glass of soda - if you are looking straight down
from the top, you can only see the bubbles that are bursting at
the top - but you can't see the bubbles at the bottom. Every
person is far deeper than an...ybody will ever know. When you
think you know somebody, you don't. You can predict certain
behaviors - certain things that they do on a regular basis, or
you can predict how they will probably respond in a given
situation, but that's because most people behave like a
characature of themselves - you don't see the full me, I don't
see the real you, we don't see the real them, they don't see the
real us, etc - you just see the surface, the MASK, the appe... "
