Life, a mirror image of oneself......

A puppy went to the famous ‘House of 100 Mirrors’. He happily scaled the stairs and looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging furiously. He found himself staring at many other happy little puppies with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled and was answered with many great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the House, he said to himself, ‘This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often.’

Hearing his experience, another little puppy, a perpetually unhappy one, went to visit the place. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked in. He saw many unfriendly looking canines staring back at him. When he barked at them, he saw the angry puppies growling back at him. As he left, he said to himself, ‘This is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again.’

The story heard in childhood holds lessons for adults, too. In the real world, all the faces we encounter are mirrors. And more often than not, the immediate reflection we see on their faces is our own. We choose the kind of reflections we see on the faces of the people we meet. And hence we must choose to be better at the mood we allow ourselves to be in.

After all, hope and despair, cheer and frown are all very infectious. It is our approach and our actions that trigger an aligned response. So if we want to be surrounded by happy, positive faces, we must begin with making the right changes in our own mental makeup and behaviour. After all, mirrors, they say, do not lie. Faces, we come across; mirror our mood that they see...

For the world to BE BETTER, the change must start with ME!