Mirror.

“That is truly what matters, for someone to see more in you than you ever thought was there.”

I used to believe that a successful friendship entailed loyalty, honesty, trust, and compromise. This week, I learned that friendships, to be a friend, requires so much more than just filling out a checklist. You have to step outside of yourself and allow someone to see the real you, no matter how vulnerable or ashamed you are of whatever is behind your daily facade. Humans connect with humans, not with objects of admiration on a pedestal. Sometimes not being perfect is the biggest blessing of all. With perfection being the ideal, not the reality, it leaves room in our hearts for faith. Faith doesn't have to be religious. In fact, faith is the moment you decide to hold on for a little bit longer because you half-believe tomorrow will be a brighter day. Faith is seeing happiness in a child's eyes and believing for a split second that it does exist, and that perhaps one day you will be deserving of it.

There’s a point in which we’re standing between a window to who we will be and a broken mirror whose reflection is what we used to be. I’m changing; I don’t know if that’s good or bad, but I do know that there’s no turning back now. Somewhere in going from one destination to another, I got lost. Yet it was stepping outside of my daily routine that really showed me who my true friends are. I wish I could start recognizing the girl in the mirror. If you can't find yourself in your own reflection, where the hell do you begin to even search? And if your reflection is not your own, then who are you?