I was chatting with some of my friends today over dinner, talking about the mirror to ourselves. Many a time we can't see what we do, more like we can only identify others and start pointing out and criticizing others for their shortcomings. We won't be able to come to terms when it comes to our turn to be pointed out. How we hate to be seen! In fact, one of the most common fears we have - though it is generally voiced very carefully, if at all - is that someone will see through us or see something about us that we ourselves don't know.

Very often, we want to control how others see us and even more so what they see in us. We want to believe that we are the masters of our identity and that we do, indeed, know more about ourselves more than anyone else can possibly know. Well, we have a little bit of the truth here.

We are capable of knowing morre about ourselves than anyone else. And there are thing we know and can know about ourselves that no one else can possibly know. And we are surrounded by mirrors. People are the mirrors of our lives. Friends, love ones, family and all are the best mirrors we can have. One of the reason they are there is to reflect our blind spots so we can push beyond our own limited self-knowledge and expand our learning about ourselves. We may not always like this process, and we may not always like what we see. That's alright. Both are still important.

Remember, we are mirrors for others too. Being open to this process balances it. The more we let others see us , the more we can learn abt ourselves.

DaRkAnGeLs'S WoRdS oF WiSdOm :

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."