MONDAY MUSE (2 June 2008)
MIRROR
Some stories we hear in school make greater sense if we connect to them. One
such story was about the House of 100 Mirrors.
A puppy learned of this place and decided to visit. He happily scaled the
stairs and looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail
wagging as fast as it could. He found himself staring at many other happy
little puppies with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled and was
answered with many great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the
House, he thought to himself, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and
visit it often."
In this same village, another little puppy, who was perpetually unhappy,
decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low
as he looked into the door. When he saw many unfriendly looking canines staring
back at him, he barked at them and was horrified to see all the angry puppies
growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, "That is a horrible
place, and I will never go back there again."
In the real world, all the faces we encounter are mirrors. And more often than
not, the immediate reflection we see on their faces is our own. We choose the
kind of reflections we see on the faces of the people we meet. And hence we
must choose to be better at the mood we allow ourselves to be in.
After all, hope and despair, cheer and frown are all very infectious. It is our
approach and our actions that trigger an aligned response. So if we want to be
surrounded by happy, positive faces, we must begin with making the right
changes in our own mental makeup and behaviour. Mirrors, they say, don’t lie.
The people around, mirror our own selves you see
For the world to BE BETTER, I must start with me
- Pravin-da
2 June 2008, Goa, India.
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