reflections on Windows and Mirrors
As we stare into the night sky we see stars. They are millions of miles away and millions of years ago. The light you see started out so long ago that it’s source may no longer exist as we know it. even the sunlight of our days takes 8 minutes to get here, however, the energy that produces that light takes a couple years to get from.the center of the sun to the outer surface where we see it about 8 minutes later...so even sunlight we see is not the sun as it is.
What does this have to do with Windows and mirrors? Well to be quite frank we often say “seeing is believing” and yet if if it requires light to see we are never seeing what exists in any given moment no matter. How fast the speed of light is. Maybe that’s a really good. Argument for praying and meditating with ones eyes closed. Also maybe most the time we see what. We believe we are about to see and believing is seeing instead.
So now let’s move along to mirrors. The objects we think of as mirrors today—you know the silvered-glass we hang in our houses and on our cars, are not all that old historically. In fact they were the brain child of a German named Justice Liebig and their invention is dated at 1835. What in the world did egotists do before then? Is that? I think. That’s. Why wealthy. Folks hired lady’s servants/maids. The lady of the house had someone they trusted to ask “Does this dress make my hips look big?” The men of the house were able to dodge that question only so often. Anyway...did the restricted availability of mirrors lead to less self-judgment? Did we worry less about aging? Well let’s grab some perspective on that too. You know that 110 years ago the average life expectancy was still far less than 50 years old...so who needed a mirror? We were always Looking good, right? Another. Thing about mirrors that have come to make me wonder is do we use them to determine what we look like to ourselves or what we look like to others? How much does this matter to each of us? How well can a mirror tell us about how our outsides match our insides? The irony of mirrors is that we can get an idea of what we looked like in them and we do that so we think we can control what others think of our and how we look. The reality is people look at their fellow human beings through so many sets of lenses that trying to control that is not the most efficient use of time. If a woman prefers a tall brown haired dancing partner there are no amount of times a short blonde can look in the mirror to determine how to look good for that person. If a guy will only go out with a Cubs fan then no mirror will change the person looking. Into from bein a Cardinals’ fan. Then regardless of. What the mirror cannot reflect, there is always. The possibility it reflects things in a distorted manner. This wouldn’t be a problem, however, the mirror has the reputation of reflecting things accurately or even better magnified. There’s a mirror I see on a fairly regular basis that have a slight bend in it so from across a room the image is always distorted. Oh and your car maker will tell you objects may be closer than they appear—just saying.
So stand and stare at yourself in the mirror if you insist... just know. You can only see your past and what lies behind you.
Oh before we make a brief comparison. Between mirrors a and windows.. a bit more about the history of mirrors. The first. Mirrors were designed using water placed in a dark container or just using a deep pool of water somewhere Now can’t you see this 7500 BC when Fiona sends her hubby out to get dressed for a formal toga party and tells Marcus to go out to the pond to get dressed and pick between a couple of. Tunics. Then about. 30 minutes later Fiona. Goes out only to find Marcus with a fishing rod in hand trying to catch the big one that got away when he was dressing for breakfast?
Well of course these first mirrors were.designed by ancientEgyptians or so they say...because they wrote down that they discovered. Them. Then again Columbus discovered America where people. We’re waiting.for his ships when they came ashore. I’m not sure we have. This discovery concept down quite in western.society.
Windows
Well I talked about. These things earlier this week. Windows.allow you. To see some of what exists outside right now and. Possibly see what is oncoming if what we see is moving toward us or we are moving toward it. However, windows only offer a limited arc of vision even the windshield of an AMC Gremlin had a huge span and yet the driver’s view was not limitless.
the point of all this? If knowing yourself is needed to get to peace and joy and having an accurate picture of what that. Looks like externally at given. Minute is critical....to you... you may have a bigger problem than you think.
Maybe it’s a good. Idea to start with some internal silence and reflection in order to see what we believe in instead of external means to believe in what we see? Do we even need mirrors...yes... but maybe we need the kinds of.mirrors that friends can be. Friends will tell you their honest. Views on your thoughts if you invite them too and return that favor. If you don’t like what you see friends and sometimes family (they aren’t the same thing) will help you change the internal picture you have of yourself and yourself indeed. Just remember the thing about friends and others is that you can wander around enough (just like wandering around in the “house of Mirrors” to find those mirrors that reflect just what you want to see. Be aware that. There are. Many. Other. Perspectives of you and tthat you can’t control many of those.
I am certain I’ll have more to say about mirrors in the future, however,for now that’s about enough. I’ll wrap this up with a little song about mirrors and speaking of that... building block number four and the chorus are nearly forged for the weekend.
Till then know that your past is in the mirror and your present and your possible futures exist within. With that ..go out and create some peace and. Joy
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