I want to talk, now, about why i chant, or count, in other people’s voices. The logic is as follows: we project onto others integral parts of ourselves that we veto or reject because we are afraid that we, in our pure state, would not be loved, and that, therefore, our society would reject us, and we would lose the ability to function. Now, sometimes things are suppressed, because of this, with good reason—but it is uncomfortable to be something other than your pure self, and, therefore, we should constantly seek to inform both ourselves and the world around us that we have nothing to fear. Furthermore, when we are good, and we don’t know how good we are, perhaps because others do not see it or accept it, we project the good in us onto others, and we can wind up overestimating what someone really means to us—we can become obsessed with them, and need them, beyond what is reasonable, because, deep down, we are trying to reclaim what belongs to us—to integrate what they have, when, often enough, they don’t have what we want: we only think that they do.