The Germans have done us a disservice...

[vitiatrix]

...or rather there's a missed opportunity for them in not publishing for an English-speaking audience an idiomatic guide to all the words in German that describe more elaborately detailed ideas. (Perhaps such a lexicon exists in which case I must now set out to find it - I have a list of ideas that I need to learn the appropriately long names for

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[ptpenguino]

Sometimes I will see someone who looks like what I know I will look like in the future if I do not remember to sit up straight, hold my chin forward, get some sleep, or whatever other unfortunate habits one might fall victim to.
Also, sometimes, I see someone who looks more like a younger me who made fewer stupid mistakes...
Both serve to remind me to do the best I can.

Still, I don't really know what I look like. I don't really think about it. I try to not wear anything too disasterous when I get dressed in the morning, and then after that I just try to not worry too much. Mostly I envision myself as a wee blue point of light, a crosshairs on a map, something intangible.

[vitiatrix]

Once I saw someone who looks a lot like my mental image of myself, only with a righteous case of meth-mouth. I have flossed daily since then, damn.

You're right that it's probably better to think of yourself as something intangible. That makes sense. When I think about you I remember you making your best curious face, come to think of it, like a little fox about to do some mischief.

Maybe until my brains calm down I'll think of myself as a crossbow with a smirk on it, all ready to go schoooomph into something, and laughing about it.

[vitiatrix]

Yeah, usually for me it's the occasional "oh hot damn I look so good I should be classed as a weapon... good enough to totally trump all my other flaws!"... and then other times it's "oh gawd! I should be classed as a weapon and locked up forever to avoid traumatizing the youth and destroying the earth!" The intermediary time I'm just a floating set of eyes and ears with a brain wedged between, heh.