Daily Prompt: The Mirror Crack’d
You wake up one morning to a world without mirrors.
How does your life — from your everyday routines to your perception of yourself — change?
I always feel more glamorous than I actually look in a mirror.
I wake up feeling beautiful! I think I have long full, soft flowing hair, clear skin, and the lithe grace of a well rested body.
But mornings are full of surprises since the gorgeous woman I expect to see in the mirror has shocking locks of hair sticking straight up and out in wild spikes. The wrinkles and spots are all still there too. And any lithe grace somehow disappears leaving a body and face that needs work; a lot of work!
The face in the mirror is definitely shocking.
Without mirrors, blind combing could tame the savage beast except that smoothing one spike results in another popping up somewhere else. True taming requires eagle eye observations in a mirror. I even have a magnifying mirror next to a regular mirror to accomplish such tasks.
A little lipstick might create the illusion of youthful health too. But without a mirror the application would be via touch and feel and would undoubtedly go out of bounds for a Halloween House of Horrors image.
Sans mirrors I would probably not be married!
Would anyone see past all those flaws to my scintillating personality?
The upside is I would go through each day thinking I had long sparkling, under control locks, a peaches and cream complexion, a tiny waist and the vitality, vigor and strength to accomplish all my goals.
I would bound along feeling taller, stronger, younger, and of movie star beauty!
The rest of the world would whisper and snicker and I would wonder why.
And maybe my husband would marry me after all – for my goodness of character and talent for self delusion.
There is a valuable message in this Daily Prompt because it reminds me that I am who I am, and I would surely like myself a whole lot more without mirrors.
Virginia Views 