Mirror, Mirror

Do you recall that scene from the very first Harry Potter series when Harry stumbled upon the magic mirror that revealed not his own reflection but his heart’s innermost desire? If only life were that telling. Unfortunately, we inhabit the Muggle world and our mirrors only reveal how many shots we may have downed the previous night at the club and its resulting dark circles beneath our eyes.

We Muggles don’t need a wand and spells of enchantment to unveil the turmoils churning underneath. This enigmatic thing called life is laced with ambiguities that sometimes seem to tether on the brink of reality and the supernatural. Life’s magic lies in it’s inevitability to shock us when we least expect it, good or bad. One minute, we’re staring into our mirror and the next it transforms into Alice’s looking glass, broadcasting our own insecurities, and unrealized goals back at us, in HD. But, is it me or does the bad always seem to outweigh the good? Perhaps it’s why we tend to appreciate the good so much more.

So my question to you my darlings is this: when you step in front of your mirror what do you see? yourself, just as you are or your past, present and future failures to come? If the latter, it’s completely normal, you are after all human.What matters most is how you deal with those undesirable images. Your tackling tactics, which from my point-of-view is to either cave-in or overcome what ails you is a true character builder.