Would I recognise the woman staring back at me in the mirror?
"Look in the mirror and tell me anybody who walks around with that halo, that hasn't made a mistake, " he said.
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But the image in the mirror was unmistakably me not young, not good-looking, not anything in particular, a little slumped, heavy at the waist, pouchy under the eyes, not the sort of man that anyone would ever choose to be.
It struck me that before I could reach the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, I had to pass through the front hall, cross the dusky living room with its sagging couch, walk the length of the kitchen, and climb two sets of creaking stairs, the long one up to the landing and the short one up to the hall.
"What this film confirmed for me was that men are not allergic to the mirror at all, " said Mr. Bateman, who served as the film's executive producer with Mr. Arnett.
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In 2009, when TED awarded me its TED prize and the opportunity to make a wish to change the world - -a wish they would help me fulfil l -- I thought of a mirror.
Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) responded when the first man looked upon me and saw beauty, he only saw a mirror of himself, and when the second man came and stated I was hideous he too saw a mirror of himself.
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In my rear view mirror I could see similar chaos unfolding behind me.
The car behind me screeches and I see it swerving in the rearview mirror, but it drives over the bundle, too.
Before I get to the odd, inverse mirror relationship between these two stories, let me describe what I think they have in common.
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It can be a rather humbling process and it can spring some unwelcome surprises - I catch a sidelong glimpse of myself in the mirror, and I don't see me but my mum.
Now in the mornings I rose with a kind of zest and went directly to the hall mirror, where even my tumbled hair gave me a look of casual confidence, and the shadowy folds under my eyes spoke of someone in the habit of facing and overcoming obstacles.
One evening when I entered the kitchen a restlessness seized me, and when I returned from the mall I hung a second mirror in the kitchen, between the two windows.
As I passed from mirror to mirror slanted against the house, I could see different parts of me: my shoes and pant cuffs, my belt and the bottom of my shirt, my sudden whole shape in the tall mirror, my swinging hand.
Come January, we look in the mirror and ask ourselves: Who's that flabby person staring back at me?
It got me thinking: Why not assemble a stripped-down, tomboy vanity by pairing this mirror with a low-key desk or dressing table a solution that wouldn't flood our bedroom with estrogen?
And so when it's all said and done, Ed, when you ever come down and visit the old, old tired me down there in Crawford, I will be able to say I looked in the mirror and made decisions based upon principle, not based upon politics.
It was a nerve-racking and emotional time for me - arriving at the games to suddenly be faced with the reality of meeting my mirror image - but it wasn't how I imagined it to be when I came face to face with people with my condition.
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" It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
If I have an appointment that requires me to wear a tie, I push a button and the 2-inch color LCD screen turns into a mirror I can use to check the knot.
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