Getting to Know Yourself: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

How often do you take a closer look at yourself in the mirror? Is that you in the mirror or someone else? Is that what you have dreamt of becoming ever since you were a child? Is that a reflection of a person whom you think he/she should have been? Are you satisfied with what you see, your image, career, self-esteem, capabilities and the list goes on without saying.

Honestly, I don't think majority of us would do such a thing. Most just won't bother to have them self-examined in the mirror. The last absurd thing you know, you have someone instructed you to do the same. Pathetically, you think it's laughable.

Well, you may be right but most of the time you were wrong and you still don't get it - do you?

People are what we call ourselves and we tend to look at ourselves more on the physical surface rather than our inner-self. It's easy to tweak those physical effects within weeks but would take decades to realise something was wrong in your human nature; apparently not in million years mostly.

Character is inherent complex of attributes that determines a person's moral and ethical actions and reactions. Our characters are usually ignored during the self-examination through the reflection we see daily in the mirror. Without knowing, we let our characters go astray like a loaded gun waiting to be fired or eventually back fired. Either way we simply carry on our lives packed with load of ignorance instead.

We have the tendency to blame others or things that got in a way but ourselves. We find ways to cover up our mistakes where others we turned it into punch lines. We blamed the authority for implementing such idiotic regulations when we stumbled upon it due to our own recklessness and shortcomings. We screwed the employment agencies whenever our resume being brushed aside. We seek revenge for something so trivial that we believed has hurt us deeply. We harboured ill feelings to those we thought were the untouchables. We exercised ranks whenever we felt our dignity at stake when challenged by our subordinates for something that was real.

Obviously, we are intimidated by our opposites. That can't be changed - or really?

The truth is - we failed to employ the genuine purpose of the mirror. The mirror is not just the physical glass hanging on the wall neither the snow white and the seven dwarfs. It could be everywhere in almost everything that you see, feel, hear, smell and taste.

Instead of hiding in the human flesh whenever apprehension is lurking, you may want to unleash the inner-self in front of that mirror and asked yourself firstly, " It is me, isn't it? "