Why does familiarity usually lead to contempt?
When we get together with friends and family we let down the masks we wear and drop the persona we adopt in front of the world, and mostly revert to being ourselves. Family and friendship seems to grant to us the privilege to be ourselves. And by ourselves we are often irrational, emotional and unique and that make individuals appear strange to others. Everyone is different and it is difficult if not impossible for people to be just like us and we constantly look for faults i