Descriptive Essay About My Prince

I met my prince long before I recognized him to be so. He was not a prince when I first saw him, and even months later. He was the frog from the fairytales that is always there but never considered important. I had no attraction to him, or desire to build a connection with him. How did we meet? I entered high school at 14 and there were suddenly new peers differing from those whom I had grown up with through elementary. There was a new amalgamation of students, either new peers to become friends with, or new peers to dislike. There was one boy who I absolutely hated. He was the class clown, always disruptive, and for some reason he always chose to bother me. Just my luck, he was in all of my classes and I was stuck with him everyday all day …show more content…
Proximity provides a sense of familiarity that leads to liking. He slowly changed from the frog, to my prince hiding in plain sight. I began spending more time with him and getting to know him inside and out a little piece of information at a time, building intimacy. Our similarities became apparent in the movies we liked, the sports we enjoyed, and our free-like goofy personalities that bonded us. Growing more alike and connected over time. We even looked very similar. I remember when we were out and about we would be asked if we were twins. I wonder now if it was solely do to our close resemblance of each other, or the similarity in our behaviors. Through class, I came to understand that two individuals that like each other naturally begin to act more similar in both their behaviors and mannerisms. That through specialized mirror neurons we can have the same neural responses as someone else, and mimic them including their facial movements. At these times of being called siblings, we would laugh hysterically about the question, as we were only friends. We would make jokes how maybe one of us had been given up for adoption and were a truly a long lost sibling. According to Wade, Tavris, Garry, Saucier and Elias (2016) the similarity effect influences whom we will …show more content…
There are multiple components as to why this is. Similarity causes attraction as it lowers chances of rejection and often offers more enjoyable interaction if those are similar to you. This is because if someone is similar to you their worldviews and opinions are more likely to validate our own, providing social reinforcement. It had been months of getting to know each other and I experienced a whirlwind of emotions when with and away from him. It had become official, I was his girlfriend and he was