How Is Your Mirror Today?

Okay, with a title like that, you will probably want some explanation.
Well, so do I.

Unfortunately, I am still working out all of the details.

Suffice it to say, that I plan on doing some thinking and some blogging this weekend. Both of these activities may even extend on through the week, if needed.

'Why, thinking and blogging of what, oh great Dredd Sweet", you innocently ask of me.

'Good question', reply I.

Hmm...now I need to think of an answer.

Well, it is like this. I have something of a puzzle that i wish to work out.
The puzzle goes something like this...
We all know what we look like. As long as we have the capacity to see, the gift of vision, most of us have a pretty good idea of what we look like. Everytime we look in a mirror or otherwise see our reflections, we know that we see ourselves. And this helps to define us to us.
Now, what if we lived in a society where mirrors were not allowed? Where it was wrong to see a reflection of oneself.
What, my puzzle asks of myself, what would i think of myself then? How would i describe myself, never having seen myself? If the way that i thought of myself was totally independant from what i looked like, because i did not know what i looked like, how might that change my perception of who i am to me?
How would i describe myself? My traits, would they be any more important? Would comparisons come into play less? What things about myself might i be able to see more clearly, or less clearly, if i had no true idea of what my features looked like? If i had no idea how i compared, physically, with those around me, how would that change my views about myself?

And that is what i aim to tackle.

How?
Truthfully, i am not sure. And i am not overly sure where this is leading, or what it may or may not dredge up.

But at the very least, it will be an exercise of sorts that will expand my thinking about myself, force me to examine some things a little differently than i normally would.
And perhaps it may help us all to see ourselves a little differently.

So, keep reading, and look forward eagerly to reading what i go through as i examine a personal view of myself from a world without physical reflections...