Who do you see when you pass a mirror?
Do you know the visage you see?
You know it is you but the only times you see yourself are when you look in a mirror, or, when someone shows you a photograph of you.
But is the “you” that you see the same as the “you” that others see?
Sometimes I look in a mirror and see my father looking back at me. I know he is not really there but people often say that I look like him. Am I just trying to see the likeness to remind me I am a chip off the old block.
What about when I see my mother looking back at me? Do I really look like her as well?
Almost certainly.
If, instead of looking at myself now and a picture of my father at the same age, I compared a picture of myself at 18 and one of my father at the same age I would see him in me, I would also see my mother in a picture of her taken at that age.
One thing that goes against this is how you see your partner now as opposed to the person you saw when you first met them.
I see the beauty I met and married all those decades ago. Her eyes are bright and shining, her hair like silken strands, her lips soft and tasty.
Do our eyes see what is really there or do we see what we want to see?
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