The great psychological universe...

...is full of weird invisible gears, pulleys, and counterweights. That's my hypothesis. All that interwoven and complex machinery of relational stresses spits out an invisible (as if zodiacal) maxim: to the degree you find someone interesting, to that same extent will they intuit you as unpleasantly odd and boring. 

Occasionally, the gears get stuck in eccentric, unlawful meshes and will grind out smoking leap thoughts inside unscheduled leap years -- two people will discover mutual and deep personal interest.