On the subject of how Rosch sees the people in his life. It is very colored by how he saw the people who have since long passed.
He sees them all as individuals, of course. But sometimes the way they made him feel can echo. So he overreacts. Or draws hasty conclusions.
Or he is ashamed. Or closes himself off, afraid he might hurt them.
Or he thinks things about himself that might not be true. Or feel things that aren't rational.
The impressions everyone has made on him over the past 229 years have grown from traces to creases to canyons. And he can rationalize and fight it all he wants. But he can't change the way they still make him feel.














