Angela is still evaluating the effects of a woman looking in the mirror and seeing someone who is older and not familiar. “It’s like a blink,” she says. “You close your eyes and when you open them, you are a different person. You have your life history in that blink.”
The question then becomes, “What do you do next?” I suppose I am one of those women who deny seeing wrinkles, age spots and flabby neck skin. I can’t do anything about those problems so why worry about them?
Angela thinks more deeply than I do. She sees the need to catch up, to merge her mental vision of herself with the physical version she sees in the mirror. “When you come to terms with what you see,” she asks, “does it depress you or does it propel you to move forward because time is getting short?”
I don’t like to think about what she is saying. However, I find myself becoming more productive and getting my projects done faster. Maybe I do feel the sense of urgency that she is feels. I just don’t want to think about it.
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