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"The Mirror's Truth: Discoveries of a Guard Dog"

Insights from the Mirror Room

By Andrew TanPublished 2 years ago 1 min read

In a special room in the Eternal Museum, where all the walls were covered with mirrors, visitors were able to enjoy their own reflections from different angles.

One day, a guard dog entered this room. Since the dog has never seen a mirror, he is surprised to see "other dogs" around him and feels threatened by their presence. Acting on the instinct of self-defense, the dog began to attack these thoughts and howl loudly. However, whenever he attacked these "dogs", the mirrors merely reflected his advances and showed no reaction. As the dog grew weaker and weaker, he fought the shadows more and more, convinced that they were really there to attack him.

As time went by, the dog began to tire of fighting these impossible and innocent thoughts. Finally, stiff and exhausted, he sat down in the middle of the room and looked into the mirror with a confused and exhausted expression.

The dog gradually began to understand that what he was seeing was just a show. There were no other dogs in the room, only mirrors reflecting the image all around. Disappointment slowly turned to understanding. He looked at himself, felt physically exhausted, and his seizures eventually stopped.

The moral of this story is that in life we must learn to recognize our shadow and deal with it. Sometimes the biggest problem we face is how we deal with problems that reflect our thoughts, our feelings, our will, rather than fighting something that does not exist.

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  • Muhammad Safdar2 years ago

    What we think inside impacts the outer world.

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