#Mental

Self-awareness is the bizarre mirror screen that, riding one’s personal Ferris wheel, lets you peer simultaneously at your flaws and virtues. More often than not, the reflection shows neither the saint you hoped for nor the villain you deserve, but a half-baked shade of gray. The more you try to understand yourself, the foggier the view becomes; the longer you pretend not to know, the greater the comfort swells—this mirror laughs at your self. Celebrated in corporate training like a triumphant mantra, it is in fact an inescapable ordeal akin to a boss’s unreasonable demands. In the end, all that remains are excuses to yourself and inexplicably scalding tea.