Day 1: Opening/ The Rules

I was given the task to choose something that is challenging for me to do then blog about it for 28 days straight. I choose no mirrors for those 28 days. This project was undertaken because I believe that I look in mirrors way to often for comfort. My goal is to break my vanity that has been lying under the surface for the past 16 years of my life. So Today I started not looking in any mirrors before we get more into that I'm going to post my rules that I will follow for the next 28 days. The picture is of the mirrors by my bed.

The Ground Rules

1)   I cannot look in any mirror or reflect surfaces for 28 days.

2)   I cannot touch my face for those 28 days.

3)   I will allow myself to see my shadow.

4)   I will allow myself to use whiteboards for I cannot see myself in it.

5)   When walking to a door if made of a reflect surface I will look down as to not look at myself.

6)   I will allow myself to use my iPhone 4 and Mac Book but only when the screen is not black.

7)   I will allow myself to see myself only in the mirrored words and butterflies by my bed

8)   During Skype calls I would minimize the picture of me or have no picture of me just my voice.

9) I will only touch my face when I am eating finger foods.

      I decided on these rules because even through they might seem hard, they are the rules that I will live by for the next 28 days. These next 28 days will be challenging because of the way that most doors on campus have glass doors that you enter/ exit through into the buildings. Most doors inside buildings will not be made of glass but of wood with glass windows beside the doors which you have to avoid looking into when going through those doors. When taking out my iPhone and unlocking it I close my eyes then slide to unlock to enter the pass code. I do a similar thing when I take out my Mac Book. When I open up my computer I close my eyes and wait for the screen to go from black to lit up with light before I look at my computer. I hope that by following the rules listed above I can break my vanity of looking at myself every second of everyday almost. It will also be a time to see if I can clear up my face during this project too. If I can do that then it means that I have gotten what I wanted to out of this project. 

      It has been very challenging to go without mirrors because most places you look there is either a mirror or a reflect surface. I have had to look down to the ground or floor beneath my feet most of the time when walking through hallways or getting closing to doors that need to be opened to enter or exit. I have failed on only one rule so far, that rule is Rule #2. The rule where I cannot touch my face. It has been hard not to fail on looking in any mirror. If I became at risk at looking in a mirror or reflect surface I would either look down or close my eyes if I'm not walking. Even through I can do my hair without a mirror I am always feeling like I have to look in a mirror when all the mirrors are covered up in my dorm room.