Question

write a essy on a day on Earth without mirror

Answer 1

A familiar Victorian superstition
claims that a mirror’s reflection
captures a portion of the soul;
breaking a mirror, therefore, injures
the spirit of the person who broke it.
For this reason, the use of a mirror
entailed a set of safety guidelines and
instructions: if a relative had
recently died, mirrors in the home
would be covered to prevent his or
her soul from becoming trapped, and
children under two years of age were
to avoid them, as their souls were
still developing and could be stolen
entire. These days, we no longer
shield our souls from the mirrors in
our home, but the residue of old
phobias lingers in the anxiety with
which we approach our reflection.
We seek the mirror’s approval, we
fear what it has to tell us. Living in a
world full of reflections has helped us
know ourselves better, in a skin-deep
sense, but it has also bred
dissociation, obsession. By
transforming our faces into images
for scrutiny, the mirror has made us
more careful about ourselves as
objects, at the expense of caring for
ourselves as whole beings.