Self reflection is looking backwards to help give ones' future greater clarity; It's not about dwelling on ones' past but understanding it so that the future can be designed and created a little more effectively into the image one wishes it to be.
Doing so can be both comforting and confronting because in reflecting on ones' life a person will usually find good and bad, success and failure, shadow and light. In each are valuable lessons; The shadow, failure and adversity, can prompt us strive for the light and the light, success and happiness, draws us to it, drives and motivates us to seek it again and again. It's a balance, one reliant upon the other. It's life.
It's balance I see in this photo I took of Faith at the beach; One could almost invert the image and not know real from reflection; The physical Faith from the shadow.
Life itself is rarely perfectly balanced though, nor is it totally dark or perpetually light. It's up to us to influence it, to take ownership, responsibility and action to steer our lives in the direction we wish it to go...It's self-reflection that assists us to do so; Understanding what was, so we can affect was will be, or at least this is how Faith and I find it to be.
I'm curious how you see it...Do you reflect upon your life, attitudes and actions or are your eyes firmly fixed ahead of you without a care to what has happened before? Has darkness, the failure and negativity life throws up, pushed you to seek the light?; The positive and empowering aspects? Has success and happiness motivated you to seek more of the same? Do you simply allow life to take you where it will? Feel free to comment below, I'll respond.
This is not an entry for either the shadow or reflection hunters concepts, just some words about a picture and thoughts about life.
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default - Tomorrow isn't promised.
Be well
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