In life as an adult, there are certain mirrors that show a fairly decent version of ourselves. And then there are the “ugly” mirrors : the mirrors that we don’t often want to look in or catch the glimpse of.
One is the mirror above the fresh produce section at the supermarket that shines back down over the top of you. Exposing any balding, grey hairs, regrowth, oddly strange cleavage sights and weird forehead views.
Really, any mirror from above should be smashed into a million pieces.
The other mirror is the old car visor mirror. That one show everything close up and often with a startling exposure of things that weren’t in your bathroom mirror that same morning. It’s alarming!
It's has something to do with the way the sun catches and lands on the item in the mirror.
For me recently. It was me as the object in the mirror AND It was also, two chin hairs, one offensively long throat here and two black nose hairs protruding from a nostril. I don't know what happened. What the HELL!
The mirror in my bathroom showed a fairly well put together me, good skin, clean teeth, bright eyes, wild hair managed, or at least contained.
But this other mirror showed a different side to me. Now some might say “Be thankful for that second mirror, because it showed you the things you didn't realise. Who knows how many people might have already looked at those hairs and had to try and maintain eye contact while they (the hairs) were staring back at them...”
- Ahhhh, so you want me to practice gratitude in this exposing light?
I did say thanks for pointing those little pesky hairs out and swiftly went home got the tweezer out, plucked all those hairs out. A barrage of tears flowing, particularly for the ones in the nose. It is just a different pain threshold, isn't it tweezing.
I agree there is value in getting a little heads up, and a fresh perspective is always healthy.
But it got me to thinking, is there anything else in my life that needs an ugly mirror and a little sunlight on just the right angle?
Always.
And I would rather choose to look when I had the resilience to be able to reflect and take action on my findings, whatever they may be and however ugly they indeed are.
I will take this new lesson out into my world and how I practice overcoming new challenges that come my way.
I might even say something like - “is this a random hair in the mirror moment.” DEEP!
Feel free to use my amazing analogy line when your moment comes up for you.
Take care and thanks again. It is wonderful to share my weirdness and random hairs with you.
Enjoy your week ahead. As always, thank you for reading.
xoxoxoxoxo
