Friennd
I feel like smashing the mirror.
Not because I hate what it shows.
And not because I enjoy the act.
The mirror is useless for what I need.
It gives me another image when what I need is another mind.
So how do you create a friend?
Not by looking for someone exactly like you.
The mirror already tried that.
Not by looking for someone completely different.
You would have nothing to talk about.
A friend is built at the boundary.
Close enough to understand your sentences before they are finished.
Far enough to finish them differently.
Close enough to know what hurts.
Far enough to tell you when you are wrong.
The mirror fails because it only gives me myself.
Friendship begins when another mind arrives.
Not identical.
Not alien.
Just different enough that the conversation can continue forever.