By Aries, October 22, 2020 — When I was attending class at community college many moons ago, we had to identify an object that was not familiar to us. It should [have been] personable, it should [have been] tangible and something we never did before. So, I chose my face and I started with the skin color. I had to identify skin color. So, I gave myself a skin tone like a light honey. Then I started with my eyebrows, and the frightening part about this story is if you have to stare at yourself and identify what you are looking at [and] after awhile it takes you to places that you don’t want to go.
So, I started with the eyebrows, I had to describe the eyebrows as shapes. Of course, I looked at my eyebrows and they were scraggly. So I had to tell the truth, they were scraggly. Then I had to look at my eyelashes. And I looked at them and they were uneven for lack of another word. And then I had to look at my eyes and I had to describe them. And what I found out is that as you stare into a mirror and look at your eyes you find out that they are really uneven. They are not exactly the same size in each orbit. Oh, my goodness! So, then I had to describe the left eye versus the right eye. There was more white showing at the bottom of the right eye than there was in the left eye.
So, then I go to the nose, which is really frightening, found out that the nose was uneven as well. And the reason that I can say that it was uneven is because we all have these folds on each side of our nose and one side is deeper than the other. So, I looked at that and I thought, “Oh my.” So, I looked and saw that the right fold was thinner, and the left fold was deep.
So, this is frightening! First of all, my eyes are not even, my eyebrows are scraggly, my nose is uneven, I have deep folds in my face and then I had to go to the lips. I found that they too are uneven from lower to upper with upper being more pronounced than the lower. I described those and then I had to describe my chin. And I looked at that and in context of the rest of the face, it seemed to be even. But then I had like a piece of paper, notebook paper, and I put it on the right side of my face, covered that side down from the forehead to the chin, and found out that it was uneven.
So, I wrote this out and I could not say what I was describing. What I presented to the class, you had to just put down the description but not tell the person what it was. And if you try to describe your face objectively it’s hard to do. So, I had all these questions and in the end the Instructor had your name and what you were describing. At the end I had “it was a basketball”, “it was a tablecloth,” “it was a TV,” “it was a book cover” and everything. And when she said “face” everybody gasped.
That’s my story. So, look when you get a chance look at your face and see how you can find these uncomfortable situations that you look at every day and you really don’t think about it … When she wrote the word face down and they tried to describe what is a face and there really is no definition for the word face. When you look at it, it tells you what it contains to be a face but in actuality to say this face is that is very difficult. So, when you get a chance look up the word “face, “especially in the Oxford English Dictionary and see how many descriptions you get. I hope you enjoyed my story, and that it didn’t take too long.