Mirror, Mirror on the wall, what is wrong with me compared to them all? Vanity is highlighted greatly in our everyday lives. Our appearance can be what makes or breaks us getting the job we interviewed for, they way we look can cause of to be admired and desired by other or be teased and isolated, and we feel about our appearance can make us value or devalue ourselves. It’s not a surprise that with how much of our identity, our self esteem, and life opportunities that are handed to us come from the way we look that you can’t help but to look at your reflection with the intentions of only looking for your imperfections.
As a child we explore our reflections out of curiosity as we explore the world around us. It is a joyous experience filled with laughter and wonderment for infants.
As we grow older this magical surface slowly start to morph from being a source of entertainment and joy into the enemy that soul purpose is to reveal each and everyone of your imperfections to you. It starts out with small things like checking to make sure we don’t have leftover spaghetti sauce on our face, or what color eyes we have.
From there we only become increasingly harsh on ourselves; our hair isn't long enough, our nose is too big, our acne is out of control. As we age the messages we receive about observing our reflection change from exploring our bodies and how it moves and functions to resource of scrutinizing ourselves and everything that is insufficient about ourselves.
How do we reverse our perspective of what a mirror purpose in our life is from a way to check for our imperfections and value? How do we not have our intentions when we go to look in the mirror from being to observe everything that is not good enough about the way we look to looking in the mirror to appreciate ourselves and finding the things we love about ourselves? Like so many things in life, we can either have mirrors be a positive influence or a negative influence in our lives. It will only start to become a good thing in our lives though when we make the choice to not look in the mirror to pick out everything about ourselves that we wish to change but when we make the choice to look in the mirror to see all the things we love.
