I have made friends, acquaintances, boyfriend, soul mates and everything in between. And I had made a stranger in my mirror. I searched in all the people around me the real friend that I could possibly make and I would lie to myself if I said I didn’t quite find someone who came close to being the friend I was searching for. I have found a few. But something was amiss. I wondered what. Until I realised what I was searching for was sitting right in front of me when I sat here staring at the full length mirror of my home.
I sit here today all relaxed and in ‘solitude’. I want no one I need no one. I ran and ran for my dear life. Not running from something or running to something. Just running. Aimlessly. I ran from that stranger in my mirror. Now I run no more. I love this stranger. I need this stranger.
There was a time I didn’t quite like what I saw in my mirror. It was everything I never wanted. I didn’t know then what I wanted. I still don’t. But I went elsewhere to find that something. The love, the gratitude and the comfort. I didn’t see it in my mirror. I thought I will find it in other people. And believe me I thought I did find it outside. Till one day I decided to have a conversation with my stranger in the mirror.
The stranger looked at me and its eyes asked me just one question. What did I ever find with others that I wouldn’t have found here in this 4 ½ by 1 ½ feet of reflecting surface? I had stared back. I didn’t realise the answer then as I usually don’t (I am a real dim wit in such cases you see). But sooner than later I found the answer. It was nothing. There is nothing in this world that I can't find in this reflecting surface and I need not to go elsewhere. I decided to be friends with this stranger.
And over a period of time I have found a friendship that nothing can break or no one can take away from me. I wonder what took me so long to realise this. I see an image of everything I am, everything I can be and everything I will be. It is a comfort zone I searched everywhere. I found here on the wall of my home.
How often do we sit back and have the patience to sit and talk with this image we create in here? It is the most clear and transparent of being I have ever seen. People can't see what I see in this mirror. I like it that way. I want it to be that way. It isn’t perfect mind you. There are ten thousand of things that I want to change and another ten thousand of things I would never change. And that exactly is the beauty of it. I see a person just like me. Issues like mine. Thoughts like mine. Dreams like mine and nightmares like mine too. Who better can understand me but this friend in this mirror?
I love this person in the mirror. It is no stranger to me anymore.
I sit here today all relaxed and in ‘solitude’. I want no one I need no one. I ran and ran for my dear life. Not running from something or running to something. Just running. Aimlessly. I ran from that stranger in my mirror. Now I run no more. I love this stranger. I need this stranger.
There was a time I didn’t quite like what I saw in my mirror. It was everything I never wanted. I didn’t know then what I wanted. I still don’t. But I went elsewhere to find that something. The love, the gratitude and the comfort. I didn’t see it in my mirror. I thought I will find it in other people. And believe me I thought I did find it outside. Till one day I decided to have a conversation with my stranger in the mirror.
The stranger looked at me and its eyes asked me just one question. What did I ever find with others that I wouldn’t have found here in this 4 ½ by 1 ½ feet of reflecting surface? I had stared back. I didn’t realise the answer then as I usually don’t (I am a real dim wit in such cases you see). But sooner than later I found the answer. It was nothing. There is nothing in this world that I can't find in this reflecting surface and I need not to go elsewhere. I decided to be friends with this stranger.
And over a period of time I have found a friendship that nothing can break or no one can take away from me. I wonder what took me so long to realise this. I see an image of everything I am, everything I can be and everything I will be. It is a comfort zone I searched everywhere. I found here on the wall of my home.
How often do we sit back and have the patience to sit and talk with this image we create in here? It is the most clear and transparent of being I have ever seen. People can't see what I see in this mirror. I like it that way. I want it to be that way. It isn’t perfect mind you. There are ten thousand of things that I want to change and another ten thousand of things I would never change. And that exactly is the beauty of it. I see a person just like me. Issues like mine. Thoughts like mine. Dreams like mine and nightmares like mine too. Who better can understand me but this friend in this mirror?
I love this person in the mirror. It is no stranger to me anymore.
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2 comments:
the first step to understanding the world around u is to understand yrself...grt!..
:-) You've met yourself.. now only to understand and to cherish! The journey has begun..
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