I don't check other people out when I'm driving unless I'm stuck in a traffic jam, then I might have a look at the person in the car in front or behind me (In front you can usually see their face in the side mirror if it's positioned right). I don't usually look to the side - that has proved to be a bad idea a few times!
I don't look that often because I'm shy and I feel silly.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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