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I am taking a class called new millennium studies and our instructer gave us an amazing assignment. I suggest if you try this you will not be displeased. The assignment was to take 3 mins out of our day to sit infront of a mirror and stare at yourself. It may sound vain but i am sure you wont be judged. Then write down your experience and what questions you have about it. This is what I experienced.

Identical at first then the face I stared at outlined a mask. Something deep inside my

unconscious mind struggling to escape the seal of this mask holds as if it was a tomb of secrets.

The eyes is what sheds some truth. I’m afraid to stare. I’m afraid that if I stare I will no longer

become a mystery to myself. But I look at my eyes one more time and I am at peace. The eyes,

as I look into them they pull me into a peaceful oblivion. I see 3 peoples. A child a young adult

and a man with a cloak. A cloak with all my memories as fabric good, bad and bittersweet. The

man has no face only a dark shroud. As I stare at all 3 I slowly see the child yell and play. As if he

is slowly moving yet suspended in time. The young adult is wearing a casual business suit and is

constantly pacing. I turned to the third man and he said “You observe the world as you see it,

Now let the world observe you as it sees.” Then the child and the young adult fade. The third

man approached me and said “Go fourth and your truth will unfold” he casted his hand at me

and I was flung out of the mirror staring back at myself.

I was left with these four questions:

1. Why do I want to keep myself a mystery?

2. What did the 3 peoples represent?

3. What did the 3rd man mean “You observe the world as you see it, Now let the world observe you as it sees.”?

4. Why does the man have a cloak made of my memories?