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Weaver: Special Edition dedicated to ASPAM
I looked into the
mirror and I didn’t
look the same
By Rashmin Shasra Mohammed, ASPAM
In a world where your appearance becomes increasingly important, there are few
who are not ready to acknowledge themselves. In fact, I myself was one of
them……until one special day,
It all started out on a perfectly normal I was petrified, but I figured it wasn’t
Saturday, I woke up and went straight all bad because maybe I was
to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I hallucinating and so I started smiling
believe it was about 10 o clock in the but the reflection wouldn’t smile but
morning when everything went it would rather look quite angry. I
wrong. My Mom had told me to have tried reasoning with me but he wouldn’t
a shower, and so I went in to the listen. I figured that it was useless and
bathroom to have a bath, but what nothing would work against after all it
happened after this was truly surreal. is a reflection of mine. He finally
While I was combing my hair I took a started speaking, and in a deep voice
hard look at myself and I wasn’t quite said “You are always ashamed of how
pleased with the way I look and told you look, that causes me; your
myself “Why Do I look so Weird?” reflection made fun of or teased in
and then something crazy occurred. the mirror world” I replied frightened
The lights went off and it was dark, “I didn’t know there was a mirror
although it was the morning. Then world, and I didn’t know what I think
suddenly, everything went back to of myself matters” .He said in an evil
itself except one tiny thing, my tone “Well, Now You Know”. The lights
reflection. It was slightly difficult to went off again and this time when it
notice it but since I was paying a lot came back I had no reflection, I
of attention to my beautiful hair, I looked towards the windows and I
saw it, my reflection wasn’t laterally saw this dark, tall and muscular figure.
inverted like all reflections are but
instead it was the same.
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