Generation Reflection

I feel as though I’m trapped in a glass house, but one whose walls consist of mirrors, an infinite reflection onto and out of me. I feel as though time, like my faulty heart, skips a beat on a regular basis, so the world as I know it merely jumps through reality. I exist above the surface, capable of knowing who and what is around me, but selfishly focusing on the inside of this house, this cube of self-discovery that has forced my generation into a self-obsessed disaster. We may casually collide, never fully realizing the missed connections, leaving us alone and wondering why we’re all so lonely. This glass house is one of many, a shrine I’ve created for myself, just as everyone does. The glass holds us in, but we are the catalyst of these reflections, forever blaming the structure for the windows that we covered with our ever-important misery.

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  1. Tucked safely in a family, even when thousands of miles away, we don’t seem to need to reflect as much. We are mirrored in their eyes, with the constant comfort of unconditional love. But when life forces us, as it always will, to strike out on our own and make new connections, that is when we are trapped by the mirrors in our minds. That is when we have to make new connections and discover whether we are able to look beyond ourselves and look to the needs of others. In donating our time and energy to the less fortunate all around us we discover that the giver gains much more and a deeper self is revealed. In essence, we must become the kind of person we seek, and in doing so, we literally draw these kindred souls towards our light.

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