The Mirror

[alyra]

the person in the mirror doesn't look familiar. 

 

I look in it every day and then I look away. 

 

I don't have any expectation of what "I" looks like, but well except that it's an image I've seen before. but I never feel like that is someone that I am familiar with. the reflection shows me a stranger. I only recognize the nose and sometimes the eyes. I used to have the hair but i cut it short so thats no longer a feature to recognize "me" by. 

 

I dunno if this is a problem I need to become familiar with my image. or if it isn't a problem I need to stop expecting it to be rewarding and just expect it to be irrelevant to me? 

[Vladimir]

@alyra I think it's best to move beyond attachment, including what we look like, though honestly this is a difficult one for me to let go. "The second noble truth tells us that the root of all suffering is attachment" ~Zen Buddhism

[Visitor]

This may not be related to OP, but it reminded me of a poem given to me many years ago. It was written in 1934.

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@Visitor Beautiful poem