Where Do You Go To See Your Reflection?
My brother was telling me about this girl that he knows. Every time he walks into her house, there are mirrors everywhere. Mirrors in the bedrooms. The bathrooms. The living rooms. Every corner of the house. He asked her why she had so many, and her response was to the effect that she liked looking at herself. As my brother told me this experience, we began to talk about mirrors and how someone can really see themselves. Below are thoughts from our brainstorm — from what we like to call our “build.” Since we are building our minds when talking on this sort of frequency.
How Can You See Yourself?
Who do you see when you look in the mirror? Is it skin and bones? Is it everything that’s going on in your head? Is it your smeared lipstick? Is it your unbrushed hair? Is it your pretty face? Is it someone that completely disgusts you? Is it someone you no longer know? What is it that you see? Is it YOU?
Where is Your Reflection?
I don’t think that any of the above reflections are really YOU. I think what you are seeing is an illusion. What you see in the mirror doesn’t represent what you are / who you are. What you see, perhaps, is your ego. What you see is merely skimming the surface of the deep ocean of what’s really going on. You don’t see your mind in the mirror. You don’t see your energy in the mirror. You don’t see your potential in the mirror. In fact, you see nothing. You see your bio-suit of skin and bones that hold you together.
Okay, Do You Really Want to See Yourself? — You Ready?
Go look at the image on the wall that you painted. Take out the photos that you snapped of your family, you girlfriend, the birds in the trees. Open up some old notebooks and read some of your essays / notes. Observe the smile on your younger brother’s face when he opens to present you just gave him. Think about the warmth of your lover’s hand when walking alongside the shore on the sunny morning. Listen to the bird signing you awake outside your window. Play with the wind that’s gently swaying you side-to-side as you stroll through the park — lean into that wind and play back. Feel the rain roll down your face and trickle off your eyelids back onto your cheek. Say no to someone who tries to put you on the wrong path in life. Wake up and do something totally unexpected. Pay attention to these things. Notice them. Play with them.
This is the Reflection
All of these things. They are your reflection. This is where you can see yourself. Though they still aren’t YOU, this is where to go to see your reflection. Save your fair, because you won’t need to travel anywhere. All you need to do is go inside of yourself and you’ll soon see the pristine, brilliantly clear, sharp reflection of your being. Understand that you are no different from what’s outside of you than what’s inside of you. What you saw in the mirror, that bio-suit of skin — that was only a necessary boundary — nothing more. An outline in the fabric of the cosmos.
[image credit: by thinctanc ]
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