In my rear view mirror I could see similar chaos unfolding behind me.
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.
These days, when I look in the mirror, I count more and more gray hairs.
Sometimes when I glance in the rearview mirror, I'll see my kids glued to the screen, oblivious to the real world rushing by.
At a yard sale I bought an old shield-shaped mirror that I hung in the cellar, behind the washer and dryer.
She sat with her back to the mirror as I brewed her a pot of herb tea.
With Lahaina in my rearview mirror, I am swallowed in Kaanapali, created in the 1960's as Hawaii's first planned resort area.
If you are wealthy to the point of having left the middle class in your rear view mirror, I can appreciate your frustration.
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.
"I can finally look in the mirror and like what I see, " he says.
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.
It's like the Michael Jackson song 'Man in the Mirror', I've looked at myself and the answer coming back has been 'yes, you can'.
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.
Early one morning, a week or so later, I stepped over to the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, as I did every morning before leaving for work.
If you do that, then you can look yourself in the mirror and say, I'm doing my best.
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As I was trying to catch my breath, I took off my shirt, looked in the mirror and tried to convince myself that I was still that fit guy I had always thought I was.
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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In the front hall, on the back of the front door, I hung a mirror framed in a dark wood that matched the color of the umbrella stand.
All day at work I thought of nothing but those shining surfaces, like coins catching the sun, and when I came home I went from mirror to mirror, striking poses, turning my head from side to side.
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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" 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?
Our professional paths could practically mirror each other, except that I was in a corporate world and she in a startup.
Quite an extreme contrast from that day I looked in the mirror.
It grew to an in-between length with no certain style while I became increasingly frustrated with myself every time I looked in the mirror.
After having one of the closest shave of my life (pun fully intended), I looked in the mirror in admiration of my achievement with a great sense of pride.
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.
Avoiding my reflections as well as I could, for these mirrors showed only a tired man with a look of sorrow in his eyes, I chose a rectangular mirror with a cherrywood frame.
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