That's not, in and of itself, a bad thing.
All people are reflections of the world around them. Can there even be a self devoid of others? How do we define ourselves if not in relation to those around us?
Lately, I've been trying to behave more as a prism.
We read something and regurgitate it. We see a trend and we copy it.
Taking in the light around me and splitting into something new. Something colorful.
I don't know if it is working. Perhaps I, like a talented counterfeiter, continue to produce better and better copies, fooling myself that I am creating something new.
I'm not even conviced it matters.
But the act of being prismatic makes me feel better.
And I am convinved that that matters.
So many people present themselves as mirrors.
The epidemic of modern reality is that, for many people, the self stops at reflection.
