Setting Intentions
March 2023 Slice of Life challenge
On my irregular trip to the mall a couple of Friday nights ago (remember back when we could go to the mall?), I was walking through the Marshalls and I overheard a couple of tween girls chatting. One of the girls was telling her friend, as they were looking in the mirror, “You know you’ll never actually SEE yourself. You know like in the flesh.” That’s when I stopped in my tracks and said to the girls with excitement, “Hey, I have thought that very same thing before!” And I went on to explain that our reflection in the mirror is not truly what others see because it’s reversed. And it’s the same with selfies or pictures of ourselves too. We will never see ourselves with our own eyes the way others see us with their eyes. Not sure why I couldn’t just walk by without engaging in their conversation. I was definitely delighted to know that someone else has the same weird thought that I do. I’m pretty sure those young girls SEE me as a crazy old lady in the flesh, but I’ll never truly know.
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ADRIENNE GILLESPIE
3/19/2020 01:19:53 pm
I thought of myself as a young person in a mall and having a "crazy old lady" chime in on our conversation. We probably would have laughed after she left. But, maybe later, we would have reflected a bit. I hope the girl that made the comment felt like you did - excited to hear that her idea was shared by someone else in the world.
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Like Lucy in The Chronicles of Narnia or Harry in the Potter books, do we truly want to see ourselves as others do? Both of these characters get a nasty surprise when they are able to eavesdrop on conversations about her or himself through magic. As someone whose ethnicity doesn't match her cultural identity, not being able to see myself as others do takes on even more perplexity.
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3/19/2020 07:35:32 pm
A good moment. Sometimes, as a crazy old lady myself, I feel invisible. Does anyone see me, now that I don't fit the youth glamour picture?
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