I have an annoying habit of asking ambuj to tell me whether i m as fat/ weird/ sloppy as some random girl i point at, when we are somewhere outside. He keeps telling me to just check the mirror. Poor guy!
But when i come to think of it, i cant remember what i look like at all points of time. Like i can remember how someone else would look when they would be laughing, sad, angry.. I dont know how i look. Not until someone takes a pic and i am horrified.
We have a mental image of ourselves, that has nothing to do with our physical image. What we see ourselves as is not what the other person is seeing.
Its not just my face or way of carrying myself, or the way of talking. Its everything that i do which has my face stamped on it. This is why we have habits (which we are unaware of) that others dislike or find funny.
Weird, how we do not know ourselves in the most basic way.
But when i come to think of it, i cant remember what i look like at all points of time. Like i can remember how someone else would look when they would be laughing, sad, angry.. I dont know how i look. Not until someone takes a pic and i am horrified.
We have a mental image of ourselves, that has nothing to do with our physical image. What we see ourselves as is not what the other person is seeing.
Its not just my face or way of carrying myself, or the way of talking. Its everything that i do which has my face stamped on it. This is why we have habits (which we are unaware of) that others dislike or find funny.
Weird, how we do not know ourselves in the most basic way.
Well, life is complicated enough without second guessing ourselves about our facial expressions all the time :P. But your bad habit is kinda hilarious ;)
ReplyDeleteso my mental image of myself is "yahoo messenger emoticons", like :D, X-(, [-(, :-?
Deleteu see what i mean when i say that we dont know how we are looking :P