Shoe fetish or an Engineering degree?

Shoe fetish or an Engineering degree? Must be wondering what's the connection, isn't it?
Well for starters - I have both.

Second, the symptoms and cycle life of both are kinda the same unless you're broke. Symptoms can range from mild to very severe and the cycle life is long, very long!

When I joined engineering, I was convinced that it'll be tough but not impossible.. Funny enough I thought the same when my mum mentioned my shoe fetish - tough to deal with but not impossible! In both cases, if I went broke at any point of time (more like if my dad went bankrupt) sustainability would be an issue. When I completed my degree and started working without much knowledge contribution from my course (nil actually), I thought of all my shoes that I bought with extreme levels of enthusiasm but never ended up wearing them more than a couple times.
Also the tasks involved in doing an engineering dissertation or buying even a carvela are very very similar. You start with intensive research, experiments (trying the shoes) and a theoretical report to the tutor (telling my mom - pros, cons ,the works in the case of shoes of course!). Finally depending upon how you do, the results are proportional.
Plagiarism issues are also quite relevant in both. You wouldn't want to buy your best friend's pair when unique is the way to go. You dare do the same in my department of study.
Also the security feeling is attached to both! Everytime I think of working in the future, I know I have a piece of fancy paper (called a degree) to go begging at the doors of the corporates to earn a living. Similarly my investment in shoes gives me the same exact feeling - maybe one day in the future I can sell all my shoes online and get some money!
Its funny how two completely different things/habits give me the exact same feeling and whats funnier is my brain perceives them to be of equal importance! haha 

Mirror mirror on the wall...

Mirror mirror on the wall, whose the fairest of them all? I wish there was a truthful mirror!

This has bothered me since A WHILE - been addicted to getting dressed in my own room, I'd be convinced that I look presentable to go out but then a glance into another mirror on the way, in the car, my compact etc would leave me wondering- well I did not look this way at home.

I know the blah scientific reasons behind it- the light merely falling at its own whims in a direction available to it makes me look however it wants! The question remains - which one to believe? Is my dressing room mirror saying the truth about my appearance or just mocking me saying - ahh you think you look good huh? Nevertheless it can also be the other way round (very rarely) that you go somewhere and the mirror there makes you look prettier than the one loyal to you.

It sort off makes me think of how acquaintances are. Acquaintances to be clear are those people in my life who I know as much as I would like to know them. Their behavior is very much like the deceiving mirror theory according to me. At a certain outing/party they might be right next to you gleaming pretending like they were born to be sitting on that table next to you but at another they might be ridiculing you while you're away! So ye, that is the reason I say - which face to believe?

I'm sure most of you reading this would relate to the mirror theory. The funny part was that one of my real close friends once getting ready with me for a party said - I know we look great but maybe only within the vicinity of this mirror! And I was so relieved that someone out there feels the same way as I do. Its very much like the time when in school our teacher's nails would accidentally scratch the blackboard and I would feel really icky but couldn't see others being bothered. Till fairly long I used to believe there is something very wrong in my system to be feeling that way.

So if anyone does have a solution, please share - which mirror to believe or which face to slap ;)