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My Thoughts / Think About It As you move about in your quotidian life, have you noticed that the people around you are your own mirror image?
The only method you can visually see yourself is through a mirror or a body of reflecting water.
However, with interaction with others: family, friends, strangers, enemies, et cetera, a part of what you do with them reflects something in yourself. For instance a simple gesture of spending time with a loved one or friend reflects how you may care for them; that they are in your thoughts. Or perhaps a heated dispute reflects what problems you and/or another may have and what opportunities there are to solve and reconcile differences, misunderstandings, or issues.
Depending on what you do, they react. Thus, it’s a reflection.
Sharing memories is a sign of reflection as well. Creating a moment with another soul to utter years later, “Hey Lynn, do you remember the time when…,” is such an example. To speak memories you and others experienced sharing, mirroring the same reflections. Although some may interpret memories slightly different from shared party members, generally the overall picture of a memory is often similar. You reflect off memories with the person next to you in a moment’s Time.
In addition to memories, the knowledge you can gain in Life includes reflection. Parents and elementary school teachers, as an example, teach what basic knowledge is needed to progress. As we grow into adults (and learn more) we become teachers ourselves. Not necessarily like school teachers but teachers in the class called Life. If you have children, for instance, you may have taught proper table manners to your children. Or will, in the future if you do have any or if they have not reached a proper age to do such things if you do. Books, stories, history also, they reflect the human condition; the knowledge passed on by others before us. The reflection of them unto us, then us unto the next generation and so on and so forth! The continuity never ends. Sharing reflections, passing reflections, giving reflections, amazing wouldn’t you agree?
Wisdom is the final reflection channel. A friend in need of help of car troubles welcomes you to give some wisdom directly or indirectly. You may know how to fix a flat tire. And by doing so, with or without having to instruct that friend, your friend watches carefully and learns what to do so that the next time he or she may possibly encounter a similar situation. Or, the roles can be reversed and you’re that friend and you’re absorbing those pieces of thoughts and wisdom. Sometimes through sight. Sometimes through word of mouth. Sometimes through listening. In sum, it’s monkey see, monkey do.
Wisdom, knowledge, memory, and interaction. The four outlets of non-visual reflections of the self. The four you can actually see yourself without the use of a mirror. Think about it because that’s interesting what I thought about lately.
Another person is partly a reflection of yourself. Without others, how will you ever learn more about who you are?
another outstanding piece!!!!!!!
This was more an essay than a poem. It raises some interesting points. It's probably true that others are a reflection of who we want to be, how we want to act, etc. Yet, I don't really like myself. So, I try not to imagine people being like me. Whatever floats your boat, right?
This is honestly and totally well-written, and it's good to be able to write about something that talks about having to reflect on times in your past, and that the people around you could even possibly be the reflections of who you are in their eyes. It's totally true that this could happen, and I believe that it does, and as for me, every single day, I'd reflect back onto the days of my childhood, and I'd remember it so clearly, but only for a short moment, because I have come to find that when I try to reflect even more on the past, the more frustrated I'd become, so it's better for me to just let it go when the reflects are over in my head, and either what happens such as if something suddenly occurs, I'd get a quick flashback, and that would be it. I wouldn't be able to get it back again, but as for the reflections of my life, I'd reflect on the things that would naturally come to mind, and yet, they are just the reflections of the past that I think would come to remind me of how to make things better in the next time around. Reflections are a part of our life, it's a part of everyone, and it's in a part of everything that we do sometimes. =)