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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI just took a good long look at myself in the mirror, while naked.
First mistake of the day.
I'll let you know how the rest of the day goes.
EYESORE 9001
(25,811 posts)Who needs em anyway?
LuckyCharms
(17,286 posts)The way I see it, without mirrors, you can be whoever you want to be!
I picture myself as I looked when i was in my 20's, and that works out good for me.
True Dough
(17,090 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,286 posts)I can still do that with my pecs, but I look like a hairy-chested 96 year old female stripper.
True Dough
(17,090 posts)Pics?
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)You probably deserve something like this:
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,780 posts)viva la
(3,224 posts)"Boy, this skin thing is GREAT. It completely covers me!"
mitch96
(13,816 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,639 posts)Mirrors are totally useless for knowing the self. The best you can get is a flipped view of what others see.
See? Seriously, others see more clearly (for the most part) because they are less invested in that self that you call "I".
So, why should I give any mind to the fun-house-mirror distortions of that which mirrors, others, or "I" see and think is real about the bodily wrapper. One usually wraps-up in the desires, clothes, fashion, fictions, beliefs, ideas, and identities that we call "me."
It is as though an illusion that one is wearing a cloak of many colors.
The reality of self-identity is closer to the Emperor's new clothes.
We need magic mirrors to see that which no one can ever see, my own self, the inside knower of the outside scene (seen).
Phoenix61
(16,949 posts)Just stay away from those magnifying mirrors.
Ocelot II
(115,267 posts)She probably is thinking, The human is a sorry mess with all that bare, wrinkly skin. Too bad she isn't gloriously furry like me...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't even like to do that fully clothed.