MIRRORS

We all have mirrors we like to turn towards now and then - in times of fear, indecisiveness, distress, guilt, and joy. We like to stare into the mirror and look at the reflections staring back at us -  of empathy, and, sympathy.

These mirrors are people – ‘our people’. The ones we turn towards at different times looking for answers and comfort.

Our choice of who we turn to changes with situations, because somewhere we know who will tell us what, and more than that we know exactly what we want to listen to. We know which mirror would reflect those parts of us that we wish to see.

If leave our comfort zone and chose them wisely, we get a different perspective towards the situation - and we grow. But, if we chose them to suit ourselves and our beliefs then we just get a pseudo pleasure of a false victory from thinking that we were correct all the way long.

Though a larger question here is not which mirror to chose … but what happens when we cannot find the correct (or desired) reflection in any of the mirrors?

What do we do then? Where do we go? Where do we look?

In situations like those the most effective thing could be … to stop looking for mirrors at all! We should look away, like we always should have. We should close our eyes and concentrate on the answers we already have – the answers that we believe in, true to the heart.

... And we should feel all the mirrors shattering around us into innumerable pieces, thrown into the universe far far away - and shining onto us like little stars, applauding for us.