Originally Posted by
Selpharia
As a random aside, I have a question born out of today's morning routine.
Has anyone else had the experience of looking into a mirror, and seeing the same figure that you see every day, who you recognize less and less from your mental image of yourself the more you look at it, but then you turn a specific way, or look from a specific angle, and you catch the barest glimpse of that ideal, but when you stop to take it in, or move even the slightest bit, she's [or he's] gone and the usual mask has fallen back into place?
Ye gods, that felt pretentious, but it's the only real way I can describe it.