The Present

Looking in the mirror always centers me.

It brings me right back to the present moments as if it somehow knows that I've been everywhere but right here.

I'm usually caught up in a past thought, obsessing over something meaningless or trying to take control of something that can't be controlled.

I'm a terrible daydreamer. I'm constantly romanticizing or catastrophizing my thoughts.

But the moment I look in a mirror, it grabs all my thoughts and holds them for a moment so that I can look at myself in the present.

I may have spent the entire day criticizing my past self or trying to imagine what my future self will be, but a mirror always reminds me to focus on what I am right now. Because that's the only person, I need to be.

"Today, when I looked in the mirror, I saw someone that's trying to figure themselves out, figure life out, and learn to live with themselves even when the guy looking back in the mirror isn't who they want to see." -IND