A Mirror, Once Wiped, Reflects Again
The mind is like a clear mirror: wipe away the dust, and it reflects brightly again.
Through this year, what dust settled on my mirror — and which of it shall I wipe today?
📝Reflection
This last verse circles round and carries us back to the first day's mind. The core of this old simile that likens the mind to a mirror is simple yet deep. The mirror is clear from the start; only, in living, dust settles — the dust of misunderstanding, resentment, fatigue, fear. What matters is that the mirror is not broken. It is not shattered, only clouded. So there is no need to find a new mirror. One need only wipe it. Passing through a year, or through a single day, dust settles on anyone's mind. That is not failure but the trace of having lived. Our task is not self-blame but wiping. Wipe it once today, and the mirror will, without fail, reflect the world brightly again. This is the last word, and the first, that this mirror offers us.
🌱Apply It Today
Pick one dust that settled on your mind today and, instead of self-blame, simply set it down as if wiping it away. Wiped, the mirror always reflects again. No new mirror is needed.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
