Which mirror do I trust?

Hello beautiful readers,

This is a post to ask you all if you've had this experience: you wake up in the morning, exercise perhaps, eat a healthy breakfast, feel good and energized (perhaps you neither exercise nor eat a healthy breakfasts, but you still feel good). You go to your closet, carefully (or not so much) choose an outfit, you put it on (everything fits, thank goodness) and look at yourself in your full mirror...

You analyze every little detail of your ensemble: pants look good, perhaps a bit snug, perhaps they fit perfectly, but they definitely make your butt look fine; the shirt makes your neck and cleavage lean and sexy; the colors highlight your skin; your skin itself glows; your shoes match and feel comfortable. You are ready for a day's work, you feel great....

Fast forward to a couple of hours later: you've been sitting at your desk, or in the library, or you have been walking around feeling good about how you look; perhaps you haven't really thought about how you look because you were certain everything was "in order" in the morning. You go out on the street to buy coffee, or you go to the ladies' room and suddenly, WHAM! You catch a glimpse of yourself in one of those huge bathroom mirrors, or store windows, and suddenly don't look so good anymore.

Your legs seem to have grown two full inches in circumference from the moment you left the house; your stomach is bulging from the top of your jeans, and your shirt is doing nothing for your neck anymore. In fact, you suddenly feel that all you need is a pair of screws on each side of your head to look exactly like Frankenstein...WHAT HAPPENED????

A few hours later, however, you go back home and look at yourself in the mirror again. Everything looks good again. You might be a bit tired from work, but nothing more: jeans look fine, shirt in place, un-sagging neck, shoes to match... Hmm... Who (or which mirror) do I believe?

Perhaps this difference in perceptions (or reflections) has to do with the spaces where the mirrors are: do you feel safe and loved at home? Does your appearance matter so much (as it matters to you) to the people who care about you? Do you feel that you're being "watched" on the street or at work, being judged by what you're wearing or how you look? Or is it the other way around?

Unfortunately, I tend to believe more in what the "outside" mirrors tell me, which is usually negative. This leads me to another question: why do we tend to give more weight (no pun intended) to negative or hurtful comments than we do to loving ones? Why do we believe more in our outside mirrors than we do in our inside ones? Why is my home mirror lying to me, while the mirror in a dressing room at a store or at my mom's apartment are telling me "the truth," which is that I actually don't look as good as I thought. My goal for this week is to start believing in my inner (in-house) reflection... Wanna join the challenge?

You are beautiful, whomever you are...