Mirrors (part 8)

April 2nd, 2023

My problems and obsessions and downright hatred of mirrors are long-standing and well-documented. The biggest problem I have with mirrors is that they stupidly and automatically multiply reality and what is worse — do it in a fake and deceitful way. They lie with their every reflection and our every glance is no more than a deception perpetrated on us but usually gladly accepted by us anyway. On many occasions, we seek those lies and duplicity to feel something, but that something is not real. That something is just trickery played on us by lightwaves and light receptors in our eyes and neurons in our brains.

I was a victim of this deceitfulness today again. Except for this time I was duped in a different way than all the times before when mirrors lied to me. This time, the reflection I saw and registered was good. I looked good in a mirror, or I should say — I looked too good for the reflection to be of any semblance to reality. I know how I look, or at least I have more than a vague idea since I am guilty of occasional glances at those devil’s vanity toys. And today, for more than just a moment I believed the fraudulent reflection I saw. I felt a pleasant and worm pang of self-conceit and misdirected pride. I spent a good few seconds with just admiration that comes from self-absorption before I brought myself to reality. The incident today only goes to reinforce my knowledge that mirrors are evil and can easily lead us astray. Many of us are too far gone in participation in the falsification of nature to realize this truth — and THE TRUTH will never come from a reflection in the mirror.