The Mirror and the Fool

A mirror. A fool. A man with words sharper than truth in a world that fears thinking.

A moment of self-reflection makes a man stand out among fools. It is how things lighten up; it is how you become what you are. Seeing or looking up to your image and judging the idiot—the fool—that you are is the level of enlightenment.
A man in this generation of death must be enlightened to be what he is. But by not being foolish, man is foolish. Whether we agree or not, you can’t stand somebody who, from the very beginning, lets you down. But it is you who has been letting yourself down. No other man has the might to truly harm you. He may give you bruises or hit you hard enough, but that isn’t a man—you will get him back after you are done with the hospital or rest. A man knows that his actions have reactions. They backfire.
The real harm a man can do to another man is to attack his mind—slowly, deliberately. The strikes, the blows of that, cannot be avoided. Women, in particular, are great at that without even knowing it. You loved someone, perhaps. They will knowingly make you feel like you didn’t deserve them. And that is right—nobody wins in love.
Love isn’t important for a man. His words are what matter. You promised to devote yourself to someone with your whole soul, and after a month, suppose you are with that tempting girl you once wished was yours, telling her you will love her more than anyone else ever could. See? Right here, I proved the point—emotions, without any consideration, make you desperate. They make you want what you don’t truly want, and they make you break your own word. You lose the value of your words. What will be your worth when you can’t even keep your promises? After a month, your love will be like everyone else’s. Maybe it was from the very beginning.
But what does a clown know of his own show? For him, he gets his payment. But for the world, his self-respect—his everything—is flushed down the toilet for something temporary, such as money. He loses what had the potential to make him millions. A man in business knows the value of words, and so does a man with common sense.
Though the context was never meant to catch you, you may now just know: the dumb have neither enemies nor friends. The ones who speak too much have plenty of enemies and no real friends. Be somewhere in the middle. Be what you need to be. Be what your reflection in the mirror suggests. Respect your thoughts and think before you speak. Better not to speak with anyone at all.
People are fools. They get offended by me because I am smarter than them while being spiteful. So be that way. I like that. I am smart, and every smart man knows that happiness is a dilemma—invented, practiced, and found only among fools. Smart men know that in a world filled with devils, there is no true happiness or pleasure—only traps to captivate them and keep them from a better future.