An object in an emotion

I once was with a guy (for a number of years actually) that would always kiss me with his eyes open. Me, being slightly weirded out by the whole idea inqured about it. His response would prove to haunt me to this day and change the conventional way I once saw things.
Me: Why do you do that?
[him]: Do what?
Me: I keep catching you looking around when you're kissing me. Do you not feel anything from it?
[Him]: *Laughing* I kiss you with my eyes open in order to feel something.
Me:. . .
[Him]: I keep my eyes open so that I can see you. I like knowing its you that I am kissing. I don't want to miss the visual experience of it.

Suddenly something that I had once thought of as strange and almost hurtful turned into one of the sweetest things I had ever been told.
We are engineered in terms  of thinking about things and our perception of them is altered. Whether that be brought on by society, the way we were raised, our past, or simply our expectations (or a little bit of it all). We will never really see things differently untill  another force acts upon that.
An object in an emotion will stay within an emotion unless acted upon by a different way of thinking.
Something as simple as a kiss with eyes open can prove to be truly eye opening.
Perhaps for many people this may seem silly and trivial. However, it has truly impacted me and the way that I see things. I can only hope that my telling of this will do the same for somebody else out there with their eyes closed, knowingly seeing something different than the abstract truth.