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This piece of writing brought me love, hope, and sadness. And yet, despite all of the pain it has caused me, I love it still. The Mirror of Oneself Introspection, the looking
into oneself to see what has changed and what has remained the same, is a necessary thing.
It allows us to glimpse by which leaps and bounds (and quiet tiptoes) we have arrived at
the state we are at today. We use it to relive and regret the past, to guide us in the
present, and to plan our course of action for the future. For how we react in the future
is inevitably dictated by our past. And other's pasts. We may wish we were alone, but we
will never be. Always, there will be one who dares enter the thorn-covered castle of our
heart, whose own introspection has led them to us. Some of them will be foolish; they will
hack and slash at the thorns in their attempt to see what lies within, but they will not
succeed. Their blade will dull before they reach anywhere near the heart of the castle.
Still, there ARE others, ones that WILL succeed. They are the ones that do not need to see
what lies within, indeed, they already now. For they weathered the seasons that surrounded
that castle, studied the roses that boomed from the thorns in spring, glimpsed what lay
behind them during the cold winter nights, and came to appreciate the vessel created to
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