I also have a pet peeve against the stigma associated with looking in the mirror. A lot of my more academic friends detest looking at their own image and stress that they might not even own a mirror. I personally think it's missing out on a very intense and extreme part of the self that doesn't have to involve vanity at all. The physical appearance gets a bad rap because it's often associated with short-sighted hubris, a Dorian-Gray-ishness. And I above all understand that looking at one's own image necessarily entails a sort of vulnerability with which not everyone can be easily comfortable. I don't want to ramble about this any more here, but I think it's important to value our own appearance, not for its beauty (though I don't think it's wrong to place a well-adjusted value on anything that's in your capacity to change, for the most part, and within limits), but because it's one more layer of the self.
- Traci Matlock
we go to the darkest places to feel things to the marrow, and think about them in a space made for thinking, feel in a space made for feeling.
where it’s safe.
- Amanda Palmer
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