Showing posts with label self portrait. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Day 173: Mirror, Mirror

A self portrait.

I really wanted to take a picture of a mirror, as I think it is symbolic of how my day was.  However, I do not have those fancy gilded mirrors in my apartment.  The top half of my living room wall has this humongous mirror, though, and I decided to improvise.

I have a way of gauging my growth as a person.  This is going to sound a bit psychotic, but I take a look at myself in front of a mirror.  I look at myself and see if I like the person staring back at me.  If I like this person better than the person looking back at me a year ago, then I must have done something right.  Today, I had one of those brutal moments where I had to look at myself and decide whether I like myself better today.  I do, and somehow I don't.  There are pieces of me that I see and I want to smash into pieces.  There are parts of me that I really like better.  Regardless of what I see right now, what's important is what happens after.  If I work hard enough on those things I don't like seeing, I know that Someday I'll Be Good Enough (Bodyslam).