The deepest lessons that we learn the most from always sprout from the most unexpected moments. Sometimes you have to force yourself to look at the bigger picture or the deepest core in order to truly understand the situation. The rain was falling quietly on my window and a breeze was swirling in my dark room as I climbed out of bed in the early dawn. As I was carelessly rushing around my room, blind as a bat, I happened to run into my mirror and you can only guess what happened next. Yes, the silence rang throughout my ears until that glass shattered in a way that felt as if my very own heart was breaking.
When I proceeded to look into my broken mirror, my face was distorted, kind of similar to when you go to a fun house and look at yourself in one of those terribly awful mirrors. I could use the fairly large space to do my daily activities like makeup and hair, but it still did not change the fact that I had a huge gap of glass missing right in the middle of the mirror. Frustrations ran throughout my head and not so pleasant words escaped from my cold lips until I started thinking about how relevant this old broken mirror was to my life.
My life was represented by the mirror as a whole which, to begin with, was perfectly put together and had every component that it needed to fully function as what it was meant to be. The crash that ended up leaving my mirror with a portion of glass missing were the events of the day that are going to happen whether I like them to or not. Finally, the gap in the middle was the situation or situations that I have to overcome in order to fully get through the day. All of these components make the perfect recipe for disaster.
In life, we are defined by the events that either stabilize us or push us. We can choose to cross the road even if it might be scary or stay on the safe side and risk losing out on the best times of your life. Either way, at the beginning of the day we all start off as pristine mirrors until hard times come over us and little by little, the mirror starts to chip and eventually everything falls apart. That gap that you are fearful to jump across in your current life is going to have to be conquered at some point in time or you will never make any sort of progress. So take a look in that mirror and think hard about what kind of events will define you today or what kind of gaps you are going to hurdle to be the best person you can be.
