The Man - Not You

THE MAN - NOT YOU !!!

Hi friends!!!

If I ask you to list out a few things which you see daily, everyone might have a different list, but not definitely exclusive. If each of you is right and I’m not wrong, at least one thing would be common in almost all the lists, without which one couldn’t have recognized oneself. How pathetic is a situation where everyone else in this world can recognize you except for yourself. Anybody with at least an eye i.e., even the Cyclopes wouldn’t like it.

Now I’ll put an end to these obscure discussion… simply it’s the mirror am talking about.

“A mirror is an object with at least one reflective surface.” – Wikipedia

Any poet describes it as the most beautiful creation by man without which one couldn’t have been able to weigh the beauty of oneself. But I say, a mirror is the most outlandish, miraculous and mystifying invention ever made by man! Let’s see why???

What do you observe inside the mirror while standing infront of it? Let me put it in words for you.

You have a mirror in your room. It’s pretty clear that there is a room inside the mirror. It’s unarguably clear that the room inside the mirror is exactly the same as yours. This is what one has been observing till date. I have a doubt for you now. Have you ever checked or at least thought for a while whether the world outside the room, inside the mirror is same as the one which is outside your room???

Stop reading this anymore, if your answer for this question is yes! Yes, there is every possibility that the answer can be NO because none of us has checked it yesterday, none is doing it today and I also know that none is going to make it tomorrow even!

Yes, the world outside the room, inside the mirror is of course different from the world outside your room. And not even the person inside the mirror is you. Let me explain…

The way you enjoy going around your world, even the man inside the mirror has the same excitement in going about the world of his own eternities. The fact is that yet he’ll never let you know that he is different from you. Even though he has got the right-to-freedom in his world, unknowingly he’s just a robot controlled by you. No matter how far he is from your mirror in his world, he carries only a single sense in him i.e., he can exactly make out the point, when you are arriving before the mirror. And that itself pulls him back to his position on the other side of the mirror from any infinite distance in his world.

Remember this is not the case with just the mirror in your room. But it holds true anywhere one can breathe. Let me clear it.

When you are moving to a different place, your world has definitely taken some change from your place to that place. But this isn’t the case with the man inside the mirror. He has the grant to allocate only a single room of infinite area for you. When you move onto different place and face a mirror there, the man inside the mirror redecorates his area to be your place at that instance of time.

Let’s not go too far from the point where we have started, the mirror in your room and the room in your mirror. He is so damn specific about the point that his room is just an exact replica. He’s not only decorating a room as yours, but if you can observe some place outside your room, inside the mirror, even that’s decorated as your world. That’s the amount of keenness he works with, in order, not to let you know that he’s different from you.

And now, why does he do that? What’s his problem if you get to know that he’s different from you?

Believe me there is nothing a problem as such to him. The simple reason is that he is such a master of your mind that he also know that you have enough number of questions and problems in your life. And he is so worried about you that he doesn’t want to create one by letting you know that there is another world inside the mirror. Of course as we know, if so much is unread in our very own world and then one gets to know that there is a second world completely unseen, there could be the height of depression for anyone for the amount of knowledge one has about these worlds.

More than anything that has been said so far, I must say he is the greatest friend, fan and the partner of yours. He weeps along with you when you are sad. He smiles for you when are happy. Still he’s overlooked by each and everyone. But for him, no matter whatever happens in his life, his first and last choice is you, just you!!!

Let me quote an example. Have you ever been in a 1-minute cloud ninety-nine situation where your loved one is about to propose you for the first time and suddenly you feel your phone vibrating in your tight fit pocket. Even if your senses hint you that god is on the call to offer you the boon of your life, you neither would stop your love nor would you attend the call. Not just you, even I would be the same as everyone.

What about the man in the mirror?  Even if he’s the lead in the above situation, where his much-awaited love is on her knees, about to propose him, you just give him a sigh that you are arriving in front of your mirror. I bet, that pathetic guy would mind your sigh more than anything even at the cost of breaking his heart. I think there couldn’t be any other way for me to explain him better.

Now u can simply guess that I’m sitting right before my mirror while I’m writing this entire thing. Yes, you are right!

For so much of info the man in the mirror has definitely been my inspiration and in this course I learnt a lot about him. While I’m observing him now, sad fellow! Without knowing that I know the thing that he’s different from me, he’s pretending as though he is also writing something. I don’t know what he’s writing because he doesn’t know what I am writing. If he had known that I am writing about the secret purpose of his life, I believe he’s no more an actor before me ever after.

I can tell him straight away, “I already understood who you are. You needn’t act anymore.” But if I do that, who knows??? There might me a day where I may not find him on the other side of the mirror. Imagining such a situation itself is horrifying. With such a fear, am never going to tell him this thing and I’m sure that even he won’t tell me this thing.

Still I support that he’s my best companion for this adventurous journey, what I call ‘my life’.

I would like to conclude here and I will suggest you not to read this for even I don’t want to create new qualms in your cool and peaceful lives. And now, if you get to remember this entire story, when you are before the mirror, the next time, my intentions are met!!!

•   This is all purely a work of fiction.
•  All the characters in this column are imaginary.
•  Any resemblance to any person inside or outside any mirror is purely coincidental.

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