MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL? I
I was digging under our vanity (what a name for a cabinet you put things ll you don’t necessarily want others to see) for a new roll of toilet paper and as I stood up I noticed very distinctly what my children once referred to as “Dad’s famous bald spot.” I knew they were not being cruel they had noticed it in a newspaper article regarding a meeting I was attending. It was not a mark of shame, but a way that they knew I was. In that room and doing. My job. Well so as I stand up I notice the spot, however since my hair is thinning. In most places that particular spot is losing. It’s fame. My hair and your hair are not what I’m writing about today. It seems to me. In terms of peace and joy we have. Some choices and some thinking. To do about mirrors.
Maybe the most famous mirror in our culture is the evil stepmom’s/queeen’s. Mirror in Cinderella. Now it’s a talkingmirror and the queen put a great deal of faith/stock in what it said. I’m. Not going to summarize the whole “Cinderella Story” for you. It’s a quick read. And if you don’t. Have to read it stream the movie on. Your Disney app or something, or ask a five year -old.
Back to famous mirrors—there is one in the. Harry Potter epic story and then of course there is Alice’s mirror and what she found through her “looking glass.” There are all those crazy mirrors in fun houses and mirrors a. All over retail spaces. So the question that comes to mind for me is if you are going to learn through reflection, how important is the mirror or seat of mirrors. You choose?
After some thinking about seeking peace and joy I have come to three conclusions about. Mirrors. Saying. That you need. At least. One kind of mirror for each of the. Views represented by each of these. Three notions.
First everyone needs a mirror that has three things painted. On it. The thing. Written at the. Top is—this is what you look like right now. You may. Not look this way tomorrow when you look. In this mirror and you may. Not look like you think. You look to others. This should be a. Label that cannot be removed without threat of fine or imprisonment. The Second thing that should be written on that mirror is: What. You see here only reflects what’s on the outside.
The third sign on your. Personal mirror should be a question: Am I standing here for myself or for others?
The Second Mirror
This is a human mirror. What’s that? A group of people. Who will tell you what they think or how they feel about their life and yours. Why theirs? When someone’s tells you about their life it. Is their. Way of sharing feelings and lessons and that gives you a very good perspective from which to reflect. Upon what they say about you. If they shar genuine. Things about themselves. It is likely they will do the same. For. You. You. May not always. Like what. You see when these folks offer reflections, but you still have that bald spot and if folks don’t. Refer to it now and. Again, well you need to probably ask them why or get. Yourself an additional human to add to the reflective. Power of your human mirror.
The third mirror I want to reflect upon (pun intended) is the invisible k mirror. Invisible? Well I say it is invisible because it is not above a sink or hanging on a door or an elongated oval on those sculpted legs.
Igt is. The “social” mirror and igt’s all around you everywhere and now we. Carry a booster signal. For it. In our pocket most of the time. Now you probably think I’m going to go off on the evils of social media because. Everyone posts the. Smiling. Highlight. Pictures of life and you sit alone waiting. In the dentisat’s receptions office thinking “why does cousin Mary get. To go to all those cool places and here I sit?” Well of course that is true. Then again she didn’t have to. Post last night when her car broke down or her job turned for the worse. I just wanted to make some of us aware. We are using some social media as mirrors. Like any comparison we do with somebody’ else’s circumstances, this might. Not be the. Quickest. Path. To peace and joy—unless you ask is what I am doing. Now “who I am?” If when looking at social media you can say. No matter what is on this screen I know who I am—then be aware that this can be an invisible mirror for your and it may be like the. One in the. Fun house that makes you look fat or skinny or my favorite the one that makes your legs look. Really short (oh wait my legs are short). And your. Body look really long. The. Thing about. Social media mirrors is that. They should. Have an opening screen that says “I understand that I will mostly get in return what I put into this) and then a big reminder that. YOU ARE CHOOSING TO BE. HERE AND RESPONSIBLE for 99% of what is reflected.
In the end find. Some. Mirrors you enjoy and heed. The “things may be closer. Than they appear” warnings on the mirror or in your intuition. Looking. In the mirror is largely something you do on your own, so if it is frightening or depressing please ask others to look with. You to check your perceptions. Always.know that what. Is in the mirror is. Only what is now. It is. Not. A vision of what came before and is certainly. Not. A prediction on what will be. A mirror can be controlled by. The way light is used and can control the light by reflecting it. You are the mirror of the light. Inside you.
That’s enough of my reflections on mirrors for one day. Know that. You hold the light and you make the choices regarding what you. See reflected by the. Mirrors. You choose. Try when you can to remember that mirrors are simple devices for learning. The present exterior. Look. Of things. You are so much more than that and you can use the mirror for learning but don’t count. On it much for defining anything permanently—-well except for “Dad’s famous. Bald spot.”
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