look me in the eyes for a little while, or even...forever

Life is never about how the others see us, but about how we see ourselves reflected in the other people's eyes. And we can change that reflection every time we look another person in the eyes. The problem is that most of the times, we don't even look people in the eyes, we focus on an area on their face, body, surrounding, and most of the times we're reluctant to look people in the eyes. We're afraid of the reflection we might see there, we doubt that it could be a good one an in the end, we're afraid of looking at ourselves. It's not the other person that intimidates us or makes us uncomfortable, we intimidate ourselves by not having the courage to look ourselves in the eyes.