We believe we know ourselves because we look at ourselves every day, but that gaze is full of judgment. We trust the mirror as if it were an objective judge, when in reality it reflects our thoughts more than our appearance. We focus on our flaws, magnify them, and turn them into absolute truths without stopping to question where that demand comes from.

Magnifying what we see as imperfections doesn’t bring us closer to the truth, it takes us further away from it. It’s an unproductive habit that feeds a distorted image of who we are. Perhaps the challenge is not to fix what we see, but to learn to look without searching for mistakes.