The story of #Narcissus has a whole new meaning when you deep dive into mirrors.

So if you look into a mirror, depending on the quality of the mirror, the distortion of an image varies from one mirror to the next. The quality is different from one mirror to another.

So then…if you look in a mirror and your face looks fat to you, all your pores look huge, you feel gross, maybe you decide you need to go fix your face, looking in that mirror over and over. Imagine that’s the only mirror you look into before you go out everyday for most of your life.

But then if you go to another mirror, and it shows you something delightful, that mirror (and perhaps its lighting?) might have you thinking “wow! I’m more beautiful than i thought!”. And so now maybe you decide you don’t need more botox or another facelift that day.

Or maybe, you look into that type of mirror all the time and then you look at a mirror with bad lighting and suddenly think “OMG! What’s happening to me?!”

The point is – the reflection can be distorted. So if we obsess over it, it becomes even MORE distorted on deeper levels. And then if you start doing stuff to fix yourself based on the mirror that you can’t un-fix, then what if you just totally distroy your natural beauty on accident?

Everything in moderation, I suppose 🤷🏽‍♀️~ Ashé