Mirror Mirror…
“So we check the queen’s magic mirror to exhaustion, subtly, maybe unconsciously even. It may be in our genes. It may be survival of the fittest. But on some days, in some situations we’re probably there every half hour: ‘Mirror mirror on the wall, how am I doing today? Am I out ahead? Am I getting behind?’” (Blue 131)
I chose this phrase because it conveys the yearning, the frailness of humankind. It not only shows how we as a race aren’t perfect, but how are lives are controlled by our innate craving for worldly glory. Whether we will admit it or not, what others think about us and how we “measure up” matters immensely. At times it may even be how we define ourselves and our role in this world. This phrase just struck me as the perfect words to describe the behavior so many try to ignore or shove under the rug. Who would have thought that someone as evil as the queen in Snow White, a person that as children we despised, would be so similar to us? We check the mirror to exhaustion. Not just once or twice a day, but until we have nothing left to give. We are searching for the world’s glory, its approval, and how we live our lives. This is by far the best way I have ever heard this type of behavior, this natural human instinct described.
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