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Sep 18, 2012Comments: 57 · Posts: 456 · Topics: 7
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I was looking into a mirror today for quite awhile. Not fixing my hair, doing my makeup, admiring or critiquing myself, but just looking at my face. I wondered what how I appeared to other people, what I??d think about myself if I was another person. So I kept on staring at my face, for so long that it didn??t seem like I was gazing at ???me?? anymore. The image being reflected was just skin, eyes, a nose, lips, hair, it was just a face- it wasn??t me, it was an object. I felt as if I was encased inside this foreign body. I can feel my body dying all around me, when it someday wastes away forever and I fall into old age my soul will still remain ageless and eternal.
People say ???I??m fat.?? or ???I??m ugly??. No one is fat, no one is ugly- we aren??t our bodies or faces. Our bodies are simply mechanisms created to carry our souls around in order to complete their purpose. We are being carried around in moving cases whose only job in this world is to take us where we need to go, and accomplish what we need to accomplish. It's so saddening how all the while we are unaware that -we- are the important one, we let the appearance of our carrier slow us down, tear us up, and destroy our progress.