looked at it, he couldn't tell which side was real and which side was
the imitation. What he did know was the one he watched had a
reflection of himself and the world around him and found it very
gratifying since these images were proof of his existence. So, he
decided that the reflection was his world instead of the world that he
lived in.
As he stared into the mirror, it glowed and its reflection changed
absorbing him into its reality. In this other reality, his
imperfections were gone. Time lost its meaning since everything ceased
to age. In triumph and self-glorification, he lived out his fantasies
unchallenged by life as he once knew it.
Upon detaching himself from the reality of the mirror, he saw that the
world around him had changed while he had not, as if life had somehow
passed him by. Confused, he closely inspected the images in the mirror
noticing that they were neither reality nor a reflection of it.
Instead, his TV displayed a crude mockery of his world on a stage with
him as its naive audience. He resigned himself to ponder how he could
have ever been fooled by such a cheap imitation of life with all of
the wonders that the real world had to offer.
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