mirror mirror on the wall

So... this also will be enigmatic. Someone once taught me an exercise on how to reach into people's lives. How to open doors and make contact with another human being. It was something like this: "When I look at you I see..." and then say the first thing that comes to your mind. Whether its a song, or a picture, or something else. Its a great conversation starter. A friend of mine used it. She said to this girl, "When I look at you I see bright colorful flowers" and explained herself, that she felt like the colors were artistic talents and that the girl liked a broad array of things. Her eyes opened wider and she said, Yeah, that's me exactly. And from there the conversation went far and wide into art and talent, where before there had been no conversation at this dinner table.

So I'm going to give it a try. When I look at you... I see me. I see a mirror. And it startles me, and intrigues me. You are going through the same thing I am going through right now. You feel the same way about it, and you are annoyed by the same types of people. I give you advice people have given me and I realize that you are receiving the same advice because you are a mirror. You have the same types of feelings and reactions to things. When I am talking to you, I am talking to myself. You move like me, you exude what I exude. The difference is, we are separated by glass. Permanent, yet so thin. So easily shattered. But I am afraid its permanence wins out. I am afraid the glass will never break, and you will never be free. I can never really embrace you because of this glass. I can only embrace the glass.

There how's that for opening up and still being enigmatic. Breaking a mirror is 7 years of bad luck you know.