Influence

There are people whom we meet who have a lasting influence on us long after our connection with them has passed. Whether it’s a quality they possess that we want to emulate or an unspoken connection that might never have been fulfilled, there’s a spirit that connects us. An ineffable sense of inexplicable importance, as if we’ve met a soul connection, however briefly. In life, we might meet thousands of people, though few have a lasting impact. I wonder if those people model for us how we’re going to be? Without projecting, are they unconscious guides to our future? Jack Morin in The Erotic Mind talks about importing and exporting from people who have a strong impact on us. Unconsciously, we want to ‘import’ from them what we can’t yet see in ourselves, and they’re doing the same from us as we unconsciously export our radiant qualities. Being aware of what we admire in others is a great key to what we want to develop in ourselves.