Reflection.

[Tengai]

We write to achieve a means.

We write to express our feelings.

We write to show how much we care.

But we write when we could be doing something to fix our problems rather than expressing them.

[Tengai]

We express ourselves to show our feelings.

We express ourselves to reflect upon our own actions.

We express ourselves to show our love for others.

But we also express ourselves to show how much we love ourselves.

[Tengai]

Reflecting upon our own actions can shed light upon the possible consequences of them. But mostly, by the time we realise the consequences it is either too late to act on them or we have already suffered these consequences.

Someone once said;

"I sleep in a room full of mirrors, so I can see every fault and correct them."

I'd prefer to stand outside, breath the open air, and then exhale it out in a bout of anger in order to rid myself of it.

Because only when calm can we see things as they need to be seen.

[Tengai]

But back to the room full of mirrors. Being calm also holds true here. If I am angry I will break all the mirrors. And so many mirrors, so many replications of myself will make me angry. That room of mirrors won't be perfect once they all lie shattered and broken.

What's another thousand years bad luck?

[Tengai]

Luck is what we call the consequences when they become apparent. Bad luck is what happens when we lose. Good luck is what happens when we win.

But in reality, bad luck is what we say to an opposition who we clearly, got lucky against. Good luck is what the losing side says the winning side had, and the reason they lost.

Fortune isn't so black and white.

[Tengai]

So how do you apply these lessons to real life? We get lucky in real life. We're thankful. Everyone else is resentful.

We get unlucky. We're sad. Angry. In pain. Numerous emotions cycle around our airy heads as we try and figure out what went wrong.

We sleep in a room of mirrors to try and fix this.



And so the cycle goes back to the start. And we write to achieve something. I hope I have achieved something here.

[SevereTrinity]

And as we look unto this cycle and its inhabitants from the outside, we see their despair. Their angst. Their stress. We weep as we wish to bring them out of their ever falling spiral.

Yet we can't. And this sadness draws us into that very same vicious circle.