The mirror serves an important purpose of helping us to condition ourselves and groom ourselves be it the way we look, our hair, our clothes, etc. We can look into the mirror whenever we feel the need to wherever we are, thanks to the modern handy designs. But, does it truly display us our real look which the world sees of us. Haven’t you found your photographs different from your mirror image? Just for an experiment, write anything on a piece of paper in any language and take it in front of the mirror. What do you see? Yes, you found that the writing appears reverse. This is what exactly happens with your image in the mirror. Your right becomes your left and vice versa. Thus, if you have your nose slightly tilted towards the left, your mirror image will show it to be towards your right. Surprisingly, you will always find your mirror image better than your photographs. But, ask anyone around and they will tell you that you look better in the photograph than in your mirror image. Why is it so that despite the fact, that our photographs are showing us our real image, we still like our mirror image more appealing and better? I think it has more to do with being used to an image. Since we cannot see ourselves, we have grown up looking at the mirror and the world has always seen more of our real image than our mirror image. I think that is what creates the difference. So next time when you look into the mirror, remember “THIS IS NOT HOW YOU LOOK”. If you want to see how you really look, ask someone to photograph you and there you get to see your real image. What are your opinions on this ?