Wondering today about symmetry. I have a mirror on my desk today and I'm looking at a poster on the wall for the movie Addicted to Love through the mirror. Matthew Broderick's face looks SO off center and strange, and Meg Ryan's left eye all of a sudden looks SO much smaller than it had before. Funny how when, reversed, the little incongruencies are so much more prevalent.
The reason is because we're just so used to looking at their faces in a certain way- from a certain perspective. The symmetry of it is unnoticed because we view the regular way as the normal way. Once it's switched, we get thrown for a loop-- the things we once saw as normal are now really irregular and off kilter.
It's our own fault. Why don't we look at things through mirrors more often?
So what if I flip my life around, view it from the reverse perspective? I believe suddenly that I'm wrong for wanting to do art, wrong for wanting love, wrong for living the way I live, dressing the way I dress, eating the way I eat. All my incongruencies will be highly contrasted... Will I end up seeing that I'm lopsided? Or will I discover that my lopsidedness is really just an impetus for propulsion- building up momentum with an off-balance load of clothes. Junk inside my brain, inside my self, galumping and thudding along until it gets off the ground with great speed.
The only problem is that I don't know how to shift my perspective (I think I just heard someone whisper my name, but nobody was there...). How do you see yourself from outside yourself, or to the side of yourself? How do you do that? This blog should be called The Posing of Stupid Questions by Rachel Roellke. I'm renaming it.
