Monday, May 9, 2011

Our Mirrors

What action or behavior of another person reminds you of you, of an action or behavior that you don't like or are ashamed of? Can you recognize yourself at all in the other person's behavior?
When we are uncomfortable about a behavior, we sometimes ask (unconsciously, of course) someone to mirror that behavior to keep us in check. Seeing someone else take selfishness to the extreme serves as a good reminder to us to keep that occasional selfish act at bay. The problem is twofold. One, on a scale of 1 to 100, we tend to perform the problem behavior on a 5 or 10, but we ask someone who operates on a 90 or 95 to be our mirror. Second, we forget that we asked them to be our mirror and we get lost in the injustice of their behavior.

Do you see a connection?
Be brutally honest with this one.

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