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I saw this WikiHow article linked from Google’s home page today, and thought it was something I could learn from, so I read it. This is the most unnerving thing in there: Consider that a person whom you detest is invariably your “perfect” mirror - they are just like you.Okay, that’s a pretty ugly thing to think about. I’ll try to trace along the

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Re: Chewing the Fat

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i should mention, for the benefit of everybody who might be reading, that i have two half-sisters, one older than me, one younger. i have some disagreements with the older one, but i think that relationship is on the mend. i particularly like her kids. it's the younger one who i haven't spoken to in years, who is in my opinion a weak, petty, egotistical liar. i bet i'll be writing about both of these people more in the future. it is time.

i absolutely do believe in that mirroring technique. i have a strong personality, so i see it all the time. i have the power to drag a conversation in a certain direction. my expressions will be copied by others. just yesterday morning i was having a conversation with a total stranger in a divey little restaurant that ended with him saying "you're right, i never thought of it like that." so why, then, am i almost never successful in getting the bigger things in my life to go my way? that's the question i need an answer for.

how about you? you talked about mirroring in a sort of detached way. do you see it in your own life? i am honestly curious. i know i have some bizarre quirks that separate me from most people. i am trying to figure out what's going on there.

the only reason i didn't wholeheartedly embrace mirroring in this particular entry is because if i follow that thread to its logical conclusion, it is going to make me look very bad indeed. i don't like thinking about the people i despise. it's not a large group, but wow, what a lot of fail in there.