Can you look in the mirror and say you don’t hurt people?
My wife and I were adding new stuff to the gym today. She wanted a mirror in the gym and had been mentioning it the last two weeks as we looked for what we wanted. I feel very comfortable looking in the mirror. Not in the vanity way but in the technique way. As I view myself, I can gauge my physical appearance and ask is that matching the work I am doing to it. That is the superficial and objective reason.
I also look at myself in the eyes and ask myself questions. What are my motivations, my drives, my reasons, my goals and my spirit? This daily review is what keeps me centered to those ends. I am the first to call out once I find that I’ve strayed in these attributes. When I arrived three years ago, I was called a troll. They proffered I was a fake, using stolen facebook pictures to express my life. The forum was used to crazies and fakes as they ate up most of the bandwidth. I was perplexed with the hating and shaming, as it was not how I was living. I could not share in their hate. This is what would put someone like me off and send him or her away. I also believe there are many wonderful people here, then and now, as I have seen many of them.
I started this blog in what seems like along time ago (if I use the gauge of how my kids have grown). It has been for me, just like looking in the mirror. I get to see who I really am. A snap shot of those mirrored reflections of asking, did I do the right thing for myself and did I also do the right thing for others around me. By extension, I got to confirm the type of person that made me do those life things. I know I may have been tiring with the blog. But really, it was just me waking up and getting out the front door to live, with purpose, everyday. My life is a simple byproduct of just this.
The mirror asks today, you knew all along whom you were, but whom more than you needed to see it.
No1uno was here.
And it case you never got it, it is pronounced, “No one you know”.
My wife and I were adding new stuff to the gym today. She wanted a mirror in the gym and had been mentioning it the last two weeks as we looked for what we wanted. I feel very comfortable looking in the mirror. Not in the vanity way but in the technique way. As I view myself, I can gauge my physical appearance and ask is that matching the work I am doing to it. That is the superficial and objective reason.
I also look at myself in the eyes and ask myself questions. What are my motivations, my drives, my reasons, my goals and my spirit? This daily review is what keeps me centered to those ends. I am the first to call out once I find that I’ve strayed in these attributes. When I arrived three years ago, I was called a troll. They proffered I was a fake, using stolen facebook pictures to express my life. The forum was used to crazies and fakes as they ate up most of the bandwidth. I was perplexed with the hating and shaming, as it was not how I was living. I could not share in their hate. This is what would put someone like me off and send him or her away. I also believe there are many wonderful people here, then and now, as I have seen many of them.
I started this blog in what seems like along time ago (if I use the gauge of how my kids have grown). It has been for me, just like looking in the mirror. I get to see who I really am. A snap shot of those mirrored reflections of asking, did I do the right thing for myself and did I also do the right thing for others around me. By extension, I got to confirm the type of person that made me do those life things. I know I may have been tiring with the blog. But really, it was just me waking up and getting out the front door to live, with purpose, everyday. My life is a simple byproduct of just this.
The mirror asks today, you knew all along whom you were, but whom more than you needed to see it.
No1uno was here.
And it case you never got it, it is pronounced, “No one you know”.