MIRROR
OF LIFE.
Each time I look into the
mirror, I have three questions in mind. Do I see who I was? Do I see who I am?
Or do I see who I want to be? Unfortunately, there is no one around to answer
these questions but myself.
I have lied to myself most
times. I have always thought that I am better than the drug addict that smokes
hemp in the bush behind my house; I have thought myself to be better than the
derelict that sleeps in the street; I have thought myself to be better than the
drop-out who now uses the trigger to earn a living. Maybe I have been wrong all
this while.
Looking at the mirror this morning, I saw a shadow, a shadow I
have thought for so long to be myself; A shadow that bears the exterior and not
my interior resemblance. For how long have I lived in ignorance. How long have I ignored my
mistakes because no one was there to see them?
What is the difference between me and the drug addict or the
derelict across the street? They all made mistakes like I did, but people never
saw mine like they saw theirs.
I have tried enough living
in a borrowed world and covering my mistakes in ignorance.
Could this be my past
haunting me, or are my being taunted by the image on the broken mirror. Who do
I really see in this mirror?
I might have made mistakes
in the past, but now I have to correct them, or join the long queue on the line
of doom.
Most times in life we
think we are better than others, but if we could take a closer look in the
mirror of our life, we might see ourselves drowning with others.
Change is not far from the
moment when you looked into that mirror. You might not be close to where it
started, but if you try, you might be close to where it ends. A decision is
taken in a moment, and that moment can change a life.
Augustus C.
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©2013.
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