Dare to stare

Looking at this photo, I wonder when was the last time that I looked into somebody's eyes for longer than 5 seconds... For this very intimate and intimidating contact, two basic attitudes are necessary: first, we have to dare to really look deeply into somebody's eyes, so we need true self-confidence; and second, we need to allow that this somebody looks deep inside our own self, so we need of lot of trust. The conclusion would be that if we never dare to stare, we have a problem with either self-confidence or trust, or both...