Gradually you learned the fateful and essential art of going out and looking back at yourself, as if from a few feet away and through others’ eyes, and “seeing” yourself from their point of view as a human being like them, with a normal head on your shoulders. Normal yet unique. You came to identify with that particular face in your mirror, and answer to its name. Yet you remained for yourself at large, headless, boundless Space for your world to happen in. In fact it’s likely that at times you became well aware of that Space.
