If you've been around for a while, then you must have discovered that there are many kinds of mirrors.
Some make you look fatter than you really are (I hate this kind). Some make you look slimmer. Others make you look fairer or darker than you really are. Some give the exact reflection/image of you.
A mirror is designed to give the reflection of an image and what you see in the mirror depends to a large extent on which kind of mirror you're using.
In life, there are so many mirrors:
1) Family and Friends
2) Critics
3) Fans or supporters
4) Mentors
5) The past
6) Circumstances / status quo
7) The Word of God
The truest amongst these mirrors is the Word of God. It has the ability to show you who you truly are, show you your future, correct your eye sight (perception of yourself) if it's wrong and transform you every time you look at it (My oh my! The best mirror ever).
How often do you look into it???
2 Corinthians 3:18 "But we all, with unveiled
face, beholding as in a mirror
the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same
image from glory to glory, just
as by the Spirit of the Lord."