Reflection

Sometimes people reflect your true self better than anything else. Mirrors can lie. You position yourself just right, angle your best side and rationalize with your own eyes to make yourself feel okay. People, on the other hand, often reflect back at you a more true image. They strip away your ability to manipulate the truth and give you an honest look at yourself... even if you truly are a monster. Sometimes they say words that you spent your life trying to twist, avoid, or rationalize away, and hearing them said without malice, without judgement, makes it impossible for you to deny, as the truth-induced nausea wells up inside of you. Sometimes it’s hard to acknowledge that you’ve become the EXACT thing you swore you’d never be, but perhaps it’s better for you to finally hear it. That kind of honesty is rare and should be valued, even if it makes you want to crawl out of your own skin and away from everyone who’s ever known you. At least you now know what you really are. And at least you know that someone brave, with a better heart than your own, valued you enough to be a better mirror than most. I’ve learned that I can’t blame the mirror when I don’t like what I see in it. That’s purely on me... and that’s a hard lesson to accept as I can only run for so long...

[@mjh7879]

This track needs to be in a John Wick movie!