The prompt a day fiction prompt a couple of days ago, is “What if you mirror started talking to you? What might the mirror say?” and that’s what I’m writing about. I know what it’s like to see a mirror for the first time.
Reflections Of A Career
There has been always been a sort of mysteriousness about mirrors. I think it goes back to the very first mirror, a calm body of water. Humans like to laugh at some animals when they try to attack their own image in a mirror, but I think humans probably did that too, when they first saw their reflected image in front of them.
That’s why the mirror is mysterious to humans; they never forgot how they were so fooled by their own reflection, just like any animal is. It’s an embarrassment to them that’s passed down in their genes.
If you ask a human what their mirror would say to them if it talked, they would say that either it was nice to them and complimented and encouraged them, or that it was mean to them and pointed out all of their flaws. But mirrors don’t do that; even I, as a great ape know that.
I’ve had a thing with mirrors for a long time, going back to before my modeling days. My mirrors always spoke to me, and they always were very complimenting in the nice things they would say about yours truly. I was so handsome then that the mirror would be silly to tell me anything but how good looking I was.
The whole thirteen years of my modeling career, my mirrors constantly told me about how great I looked and were very supportive.
Now that I’m older, overweight and out of shape, my mirrors have turned against me, and they all tell me horrible things about how I look. What they don’t know is that I could turn it all around and get back to the top if I wanted to.
As you can see in this video, we have a young male ape that looks very comfortable with the mirror, and is learning that it is his own reflection.
Some humans only want to show videos where a possessive silverback freaks out because at first, he thinks it’s an intruder trying to get his females. That’s understandable, if the silverback doesn’t know for sure what’s gong on. Don’t humans have some saying like, “Don’t get caught with your pants down?”
The young ape in the video shows that when it’s know there’s no threat, apes are just as calm and collected as any human would be, on seeing a mirror for the first time.
All that’s going on when a silverback acts that way means he’s being cautious. He’s the family protector, and he has to be vigilant.
How about me? Well, I’ve always been single,because that’s more fun; but if I was in charge of a whole family, I’d probably be a little uptight too.
