Nov 14 2006
My Picasso Days
Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and just thought, Wow. I look really odd.
I get that some mornings. I know that I am not symmetrical. Who is?
But sometimes it seems like all my asymmetry is exaggerated – one eye is massive, the other eye, a squint.
I call these my “Picasso Days.”
When I have a Picasso Day, which is really more of a Picasso Morning as I don’t look at myself in a mirror except to clean up, I wonder if THIS is what everyone else is seeing.
I mean, we have all heard that we really don’t see our true selves. Our self-image generally is generally distorted in some way, depending on how we feel about ourselves.
Intellectually I know that worrying about my looks is a waste of time. Beauty is currently associated with youth. If all goes well, I will become old. Even if I were beautiful, at some point, I would not be.
What we see is merely an interpretation. How we interpret what we see is based on our focus.
If we are viewing something through the lens of love, we interpret what we are seeing as beautiful.
If we view what we are seeing with judgment and hatred and negativity, all we will see is ugliness.
So sometimes I have my Picasso Days.
I use them to remind myself that there is more to me than my looks and I should use my squinty eye to see the beauty in everyone.