The Airportline: Observations

Sometimes I've been surprised, and even annoyed, at some women and what I have interpreted as an obsession with regards to their own appearance. The constant looking in the mirror always made me think that these people are a bit too vain for their own good. However, after reading Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being recently, I found a passage that made me revise my opinion and realize that there might be a deeper quest to this, at first seemingly superficial, behavior. Kundera writes:

It was not vanity that drew her to the mirror; it was amazement at seeing her own `I`. She forgot she was looking at the instrument panel of her body mechanisms; she thought she saw her soul shining through the features of her face. (p. 38)

This is an interesting idea that might force me to reevaluate my disdain for all the fashion bloggers that showcase seemly selfobessed photos of spoiled teenage girls and their 'style of the day'. Maybe they are just looking at their own soul and trying to figure things out. Do I really have the right to ridicule that? Or is it an attempt to glorify and intellectualize a vain approach to life? I guess that is up to each one to decide for themselves.