It’s the lesson of the mirror. The people in your life aren’t an accident – they’re a mirror of your internal state. He mirrored me and validated all of the beauty that was cultivating inside. The amazing characteristics I saw in him were a reflection of what I saw in myself. I loved him immediately because I finally began loving myself. But the tricky thing about a mirror is that it reflects back everything, including the ugly.

The mirror reflected my deepest, darkest secret (well, not anymore). I didn’t believe I was pretty. The root (although I’m aware) doesn’t really matter. All I know is that the issue is mine now and it’s staring me right in the face. I feel unattractive a lot of the time and it’s so real – and so deep – that I needed to be confronted in a dramatic way.

from The Daily Love.