I am stuck in the mirror…looking back at me it’s easy to see a lifetime…I smile, the reflection echoing the same, and we are satisfied. The connection is not easily broken because the longer the gaze the farther back in time we can see into each other…the unwinding of time which reveals my construction…atoms and molecules, dividing cells and seconds becoming minutes then hours and then years…transcending so much more than the sum of its parts – consciousness and self aware. Still, I can only look back through that glass to find some meaning and reason…the formula – the equation of vast components and inputs which created this output and outcome – me…and while it does well to reflect my creation and past, it does poorly in its prediction of the future. I suspect this is the reason we peer at ourselves in the mirror…all too often looking for something to be revealed about ourselves…just searching, though granted we are not always sure for what. The hope I think is just for a hint of what’s ahead…sometimes to make sure that what we have left behind – those demons – are still receding farther and farther behind us…but mostly to make sure that when we smile, our reflection smiles back, and that for at least in that moment we are okay and all is well.
Your Loving Father
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂