The Mind Has A Vanity All Its Own
There is phenomenon which has happened in one's mind since men
and women discovered their reflection in a pool of water, and then the mirror. Our eyes like to play tricks with our mind. Or is it, our mind likes to play tricks with what it sees? When we are children, we look to the reflection
and imagine someone older. More grownup then our age suggests. We become teenagers and the reflection belies a maturity that we are becoming adults. Then comes the ages of invincibility. When we are in our twenties and our mind tells us to live our life on the edge, because so much of life is still before us and nothing could possibly stop us now. When the insuperable facade of believing Father Time will let you live as a twenty-something being forever, stops diluting your eyesight, the mind still sees itself younger then the rest of the World. Even at advance ages, the mind sees itself attractive to people younger than themselves. It's not until the advent of the commercially introduced art of photography did our hallucinations about ourselves stop and reality sink in. Our mind has a vanity all its own. It doesn't believe we should know our true age. If you don't believe me, try not looking at any photographs of yourself for one month. It's OK to see yourself in the mirror daily, just don't take a picture of yourself. Then, after the month is over, take a photo, close enough to see your body and face clearly. You will feel a little confusion as you think, that's not how I look. It's the same phenomenon people go through when they hear their voice on a recording for the first time. Non of us believe how we sound on that recording, and non of us believe how our mind deceives us on the condition of our looks. The mind has a vanity all its own.
This is,I May Be Turning Sixty - But I Am Still Sexy - In My Own Mind,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist, a master, can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply imprisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her.”- Robert A. Heinlein -
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
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and women discovered their reflection in a pool of water, and then the mirror. Our eyes like to play tricks with our mind. Or is it, our mind likes to play tricks with what it sees? When we are children, we look to the reflection
and imagine someone older. More grownup then our age suggests. We become teenagers and the reflection belies a maturity that we are becoming adults. Then comes the ages of invincibility. When we are in our twenties and our mind tells us to live our life on the edge, because so much of life is still before us and nothing could possibly stop us now. When the insuperable facade of believing Father Time will let you live as a twenty-something being forever, stops diluting your eyesight, the mind still sees itself younger then the rest of the World. Even at advance ages, the mind sees itself attractive to people younger than themselves. It's not until the advent of the commercially introduced art of photography did our hallucinations about ourselves stop and reality sink in. Our mind has a vanity all its own. It doesn't believe we should know our true age. If you don't believe me, try not looking at any photographs of yourself for one month. It's OK to see yourself in the mirror daily, just don't take a picture of yourself. Then, after the month is over, take a photo, close enough to see your body and face clearly. You will feel a little confusion as you think, that's not how I look. It's the same phenomenon people go through when they hear their voice on a recording for the first time. Non of us believe how we sound on that recording, and non of us believe how our mind deceives us on the condition of our looks. The mind has a vanity all its own.
This is,I May Be Turning Sixty - But I Am Still Sexy - In My Own Mind,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist, a master, can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply imprisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her.”- Robert A. Heinlein -
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Like what you are reading or don't like what you see.Set up my Blog as your Homepage,or sign up as a Follower,or leave a Comment,and I'll answer you in a Post.Thanks for reading.
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