It’s something we do several times a day — look into a mirror.
Add to that number self-staring moments all the quick glances when passing a window outside and realize that gazing at oneself is a national pastime.
But it’s a pastime filled with danger.
Be careful when you choose to look into a mirror because:
1) If you are a certain age, there will come a morning when you look in the mirror and see yourself transforming into your mother or father, or maybe a weird combination of the two. For those who think their parents are, or were, really handsome, well, good for you. That morning look is a sentimental pleasure. But for the rest of us, it’s a horror to see your face starting to look like a person who used to yell at you when you were bad and powerless.