A TALE OFBROKEN MIRROWS AND BLURRED IMAGES.

  BROKEN MIRRORS AND BLURRED IMAGES TALE.

 

 Like many superstitions, bad luck incurred from breaking a mirror has its roots in antiquity. The ancient Romans were the first to develop a method with which to create the reflective surface of a mirror. Their religious beliefs, condensed into Hesiod's Theogony, as well as their spiritual beliefs were the catalyst that propagated this superstition. Many societies throughout the world believe that a mirror possesses a kind of raw supernatural power, a window into the soul. These cultures hold that part of their soul is imparted to the mirror through their reflection. Should the mirror shatter or fragment, this could mean the corruption of that person's soul. Moreover, it would also mean that a portion of that individual's soul would be confined to the broken mirror. This ties into a spiritual belief known as spirit loss that many cultures still embody even today. In the absence of modern science to explain many such phenomena, ancient civilizations were left to address the question of existential ambiguity and spirituality in an arbitrary context, which is why many of these superstitions arise. While breaking a mirror is believed to herald seven years of bad luck, there are subsequent actions one can take to resolve this negative karma.Perhaps the most candid remedy for breaking a mirror is to grind up the fragments into a find powder and bury them. This destroys the reflection, restoring the soul to the individual who broke the mirror. Another antidote, which was taken from a number of other pagan superstitions is to throw salt over one's shoulder. One particular African spiritual belief holds that by immersing the broken pieces in a southern flowing stream, one find exoneration from the bad luck in a shy fraction of the time. Finally, burning the shattered pieces of the mirror is also said to remove the burden of seven years of bad luck

 If one looks in a mirror, one's image reverses (e.g., if one raises one's right hand, one's left hand will appear to go up in the mirror). However, a mirror does not "swap" left and right, any more than it swaps top and bottom. A mirror reverses the forward/backward axis, and we define left and right relative to front and back. Flipping front/back and left/right is equivalent to a rotation of 180 degrees about the vertical axis (in the same way that text which is back-to-front and upside-down simply looks like it has been rotated 180 degrees on the page). Therefore, looking at an image of oneself with the front/back axis flipped is the same as looking at an image with the left/right axis flipped and the whole figure rotated 180 degrees about the vertical axis, which is exactly whaI knocked a mirror on my bathroom floor and it cracked into pieces.

 Seven years bad luck, according to my grandmother. And here's the applicability to the contents of my blog: I do everything I can to steer away from superstition, but my worldview and the stories I've been told since birth are too powerful for me not to get a little freaked out. No matter how level headed I am, the story is under my skin. I'll be 32 before I can shake the bad luck. For seven years, a small part of me will wonder if, during a stroke of bad luck, I charted this course when I busted my mirror.

I pulled out my laptop and tried to stay a safe distance from anything that might harm me and qualify as the first in a string of bad luck instances one sees when standing in front of a mirror.

A friend of mine has been breaking so many mirrors recently that  he requested for intervention and advice from me .Being the all  knowing guy with Google at my disposal and high analyzing ability i got down to "business"  and realized that the guy had really broken many mirrors but it was the breakage of a special mirror that   got him into the limelight.The combat co loured mirror that was  deemed to posses powers to protect  and even  keep away bad luck.Yes the special mirror broke and broke in front of everyone`s eyes. The mirror that was made  to have special powers was finally deemed to be powerless how? Am yet to  find out how the mirror was able to deceive the people who used it that it protected and prevented bad luck yet it fell and broke into pieces.

My investigation shows that there were several people who knew about the fake mirror that has been in existence receiving special treatment  and nothing was done .Investigations are being done  to  how many such mirrors are out there and what the mirrors were really meant for.Mirrors all look the same and because they are meant to give you an impression there questions on  how many fake mirrors are out their giving people false ,unclear  blurred images and how can you  differentiate between the broken,fake or wrong mirror.

next time you look into a mirror be careful,do not believe what you see ,have the ability to question  every occurrence and  deed as you never know what kind of mirror you are looking into,it could turn out to be a broken or cracked  mirror!.