#101: "Reflection"
Apparently British men check their reflection 27 times a day on average. Not only am I far from being one of them but I actually feel rather perplexed by the whole idea. If I was to look at my reflection more frequently I honestly would not know what I was even looking for. I suppose I could check the consistency of my corporeal reality by making sure I’m still imprisoned within roughly the same, painfully average, fleshy vehicle. But other than the odd existential test now and again, I’m not sure how looking at myself could be that useful. I don’t even look at myself in the mirror when I shave or brush my teeth. I use an electric razor and I much prefer feeling where I need to shave and I tend to brush my teeth for longer when I’m not looking, so I do that. I haven’t brushed my hair since I was at primary school and I haven’t worn make up for years. I just don't need mirrors.
Sometimes, when you haven’t seen a friend or family member for a long time, you can only visualise their face with a vague incertitude. But this rough approximation is similar to how I envisage my own facial failure. Right this second I can’t picture my fat facial farce half as vividly as I can my close friends' and family's. In fact, without touching my fiasco of a face, I have no idea what the hairiness level of my chubby chops is. OK. I’ve felt. I’m hairy level 7.3.
The worst instances of self-recognition are all the other reflections of our image apart from through a mirror. Whereas I can withstand seeing myself in a mirror most of the time, seeing myself in a photograph or video creates axiomatic perturbation. If I ponder over this fact, that I appear to be the antithesis of how I’d like/hope to be, I actually want to die. Oh but don’t worry! Luckily I ignore the gorpy cunt I appear to be and just assume that it’s just a common phenomenon. Surely other people commonly compare their image and voice unfavourably. So even though the evidence in to the contrary, I’ve learnt to ignore all aspects of self-perception, be how I believe I should be and, without prejudice, take into account the views of a few feckless individuals who say good things about how I appear. Even if their eyes go ping when they take off their glasses.
OF THE DAY Is Away At The Moment, But Here Is A Picture Of What He Is Doing OF THE DAY - OTD has been trick or treating with my pumpkin
All the above is actually good advice, especially the bit about touching your face and checking the hairiness level of your chubby chops. But as part of this post I used the term “axiomatic perturbation”. I don’t know why, and I’m not entirely sure if it makes sense. So I googled “axiomatic perturbation”. I discovered there's only one instance of it being used before. There’s an ‘Axiomatic Perturbation Theory’, published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics in 1963, which I found in the Astrophysics Data System, a NASA-funded project. With that in mind, [Question You Must Answer In The Form Of A Comment:] do you think this is a sign I should strive to become an astronaut?
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