The phenomenon of reflection is often associated with mirrors, seeing the copies of our beings in a glass which blocks transparency. This kind of reflection is mostly used to see ourselves through eyes of a glass, to find faults and an increased embrace of vanity. Which brings me back to a movie I re-watched yesterday, Divergent. In this movie, there exists a place where people were divided into groups. These groups are called factions, they were divided into 5 factions : Abnegation, Amity, Erudite, Dauntless, and Candor.
There's one faction amongst all of the above which focuses on vanity and mirrors, i.e. Abnegation. In this world mirrors aren't things that their world evolve around. One looks at his/her image for a short period of time, probably less than a minute, unlike "we" do. It is that way as they don't want to practise vanity. This movie had me thinking, to a point I even thought about vanity itself in a spiritual, psychological and physical way.
One Sunday I looked at myself, my face particularly while I was in the bathroom and I was looking deeper into my face, the spots, the glow and the beautiful African radiance and my natural hair and began to wonder why do we need make-up/ weaves for self-validation but most importantly societal reflection., especially behind the screen. I imagined myself being interviewed on a morning talk show with my face of flaws and inherent radiance. I asked myself why do we have to wear make-up to appear on TV, magazines or photo-shoots.
Do we really have to wear paint on our faces? it's not like we are a plaster of grey walls when we wear our own skin with flaws and natural radiance. Do we have to wear ponytails whereas a pony's tail is attached to its back and it wears its own hair genuinely to its own skin. Television/media, another reflection. Society has fallen to a stereotype that when you don't wear make-up you are not human enough to appear on TV. The media has planted and germinated a stigma to the public and itself that wearing make-up is essential or a prerequisite to appear on TV. And that wearing your own natural hair is somewhat a disgrace or an inadequacy to be a television, magazine or photo-shoot beauty.
Even though the characters of a play or movie are not real, those characters were not picture perfect because of make-up. Even in true stories or when presenting, the real person never wore make-up, but still we portray perfectionism without realizing that we are building a psychological dilemma unto our own children, sisters and brothers. which leads to the most vulnerable and deadly kind of reflection called societal reflection.
Societal reflection is the kind in which your community, friends, family and colleagues embrace. For the fact you don't tolerate being a conformist, you're already classified as being a victim of this reflection by the suspects called "The Social Reflectionists" The second reflection (Television/media) has impregnated society of how a woman or man should appear, dress, believe, behave or talk. The most critical reflection that makes one who has no power of self-worth, the one birthed by societal reflection is self-rejection.
Now all of the above mentioned reflections propel a three+ times negative force towards a human being, and which sometimes breaks the yolk of an egg and produces a premature chick if your inner being is negative too. In addition the premature chick becomes prey to vultures. This yoke is also a representation of your mind which the south pole of the law of attraction, that is negativity, you'll easily be broken by outside forces instead of the mature inside force, which is the the greatest reflection of humanity, the birth of something new.
There's one faction amongst all of the above which focuses on vanity and mirrors, i.e. Abnegation. In this world mirrors aren't things that their world evolve around. One looks at his/her image for a short period of time, probably less than a minute, unlike "we" do. It is that way as they don't want to practise vanity. This movie had me thinking, to a point I even thought about vanity itself in a spiritual, psychological and physical way.
One Sunday I looked at myself, my face particularly while I was in the bathroom and I was looking deeper into my face, the spots, the glow and the beautiful African radiance and my natural hair and began to wonder why do we need make-up/ weaves for self-validation but most importantly societal reflection., especially behind the screen. I imagined myself being interviewed on a morning talk show with my face of flaws and inherent radiance. I asked myself why do we have to wear make-up to appear on TV, magazines or photo-shoots.
Do we really have to wear paint on our faces? it's not like we are a plaster of grey walls when we wear our own skin with flaws and natural radiance. Do we have to wear ponytails whereas a pony's tail is attached to its back and it wears its own hair genuinely to its own skin. Television/media, another reflection. Society has fallen to a stereotype that when you don't wear make-up you are not human enough to appear on TV. The media has planted and germinated a stigma to the public and itself that wearing make-up is essential or a prerequisite to appear on TV. And that wearing your own natural hair is somewhat a disgrace or an inadequacy to be a television, magazine or photo-shoot beauty.
Even though the characters of a play or movie are not real, those characters were not picture perfect because of make-up. Even in true stories or when presenting, the real person never wore make-up, but still we portray perfectionism without realizing that we are building a psychological dilemma unto our own children, sisters and brothers. which leads to the most vulnerable and deadly kind of reflection called societal reflection.
Societal reflection is the kind in which your community, friends, family and colleagues embrace. For the fact you don't tolerate being a conformist, you're already classified as being a victim of this reflection by the suspects called "The Social Reflectionists" The second reflection (Television/media) has impregnated society of how a woman or man should appear, dress, believe, behave or talk. The most critical reflection that makes one who has no power of self-worth, the one birthed by societal reflection is self-rejection.
Now all of the above mentioned reflections propel a three+ times negative force towards a human being, and which sometimes breaks the yolk of an egg and produces a premature chick if your inner being is negative too. In addition the premature chick becomes prey to vultures. This yoke is also a representation of your mind which the south pole of the law of attraction, that is negativity, you'll easily be broken by outside forces instead of the mature inside force, which is the the greatest reflection of humanity, the birth of something new.
"The greatest reflection is the one from within to the outside than from the outside within." - Goitsemang Sandra Mvula
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