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What would we do without mirrors? Do you ever think about it? We're so used to the fact that we can look at ourselves as if we're watching someone else, that we take it for granted. What we don't always realize though is that we use other kinds of mirrors too, let's call them "non visual" mirrors. What I mean with this is that sometimes we use our friends, or people we know (or sometimes even people we don't know) as a mirror to better understand things in our life that we have trouble understanding or handling. This can take different forms, the most normal being that you just talk to your friends about a problem, and hear their point of view on it: they can provide an outside perspective on something that is harder to see for you, just like a mirror helps you see parts of yourself that others can see but you cannot. Then, moving things one step beyond, sometimes there are people that we're particularly close to, or that know us very well, and ...

Or should I say "thoughts on food"?. This video definitely makes you think about the things you eat I'm definitely not the kind of person that is obsessed with nutritional values, calories intake and so on. I like to eat, and my rule of thumb is just to make sure my diet is as varied and diversified as possible. I also believe that your state of mind while you eat plays a major role in how you assimilate the food, but that's a whole different story altogether, maybe some other time... What this video points out though is how messed up the food that is available to most of us is: most food in the developed world is processed, or impoverished by some highly efficient farming/growing/breeding technology that makes sure we get more, prettier and faster, for less money... the actual quality of what we eat is somewhat irrelevant in this picture. Kind of sad, isn't it? Mahalo