be-a-prisma.md

Are you a mirror?

So many people present themselves as mirrors. That's not, in and of itself, a bad thing. All people are reflections of the world around them. Can there even be a self devoid of others? How do we define ourselves if not in relation to those around us? The epidemic of modern reality is that, for many people, the self stops at reflection. We read something and regurgitate it. We see a trend and we copy it. Lately, I've been trying to behave more as a prism. Taking in the light around me and splitting into something new. Something colorful. I don't know if it is working. Perhaps I, like a talented counterfeiter, continue to produce better and better copies, fooling myself that I am creating something new. I'm not even conviced it matters. But the act of being prismatic makes me feel better. And I am convinved that that matters.