Word of the Week #311:
Have you ever wondered why some of your friends and loved ones seem not always like that one pic of yours that you really don’t?
It is odd, right?
And it happens all the time! There will always be that one photo in which we just look… odd, but for some reason, everyone else seems to love that one photo. Why is that?
Well, I believe there is an actual reason for it.
The thing is that what we see in the mirror is a very distorted image of ourselves. There are some technical aspects to it, such as the distance from the mirror and the lateral inversion.
However, the big difference is in the expressions, or rather the lack thereof.
Since this bland, warped version of ourselves is what we see the most often, we tend to form a very distorted self image.
Because of this, most of us don’t realise how good we really look, nor what aspects or features of ourselves help us look our best.
On the other hand, the people who know and love us—and more importantly the people we know and love—get to see us in all our animated forms. They get to see too many more facets of ourselves that we rarely would… unless we happen to star in a documentary about our real lives or something like that, but who would ever sign up for anything like that, right? Right?
Now, this image that they form of us is very different from the one we get to see in the mirror and in most of our standard, posed, “I-guess-this-is-the-best-I-can-look” photos.
That is why a lot of candid pics that we would never consider even close to our best version would seem lovely to the people who love us—because they contain the love and joy and animation that makes up the best part of who we are beyond just the bones and skins.
The people love who love you have seen you more than you’ve yourself, and they’ve seen you look better than you’ve seen yourself.
They know what the best of you look like.
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