Nostalgic Self Reflection

I wake up every morning and look at myself in the mirror. It's cool to realize that a few years ago I was a kid, too short to barely see my entire body in the mirror of my parents house, wearing my favorite pajamas, specifically on Saturday mornings when my mother would quietly shout to me from outside the bathroom door "When you're done taking a bath and brushing your teeth Kenon there's breakfast in the kitchen."

 

Now I'm here, living in my own apartment, and instead of continuing the bi-Saturday ritual of going to the barber shop to get my hair cut, I learned to cut my own hair. I still watch cartoons, although they're not how they use to. Hey Arnold, Recess, and The Rugrats are now considered old school cartoons to a kid born in the 90's, but Spongebob and The Fairly Oddparents of the 2000's are just as fine.

 

I remember when being grown was so cool to me! Being able to do what I want, live in an amazing house, own a car, and have a family. Something my parents taught me well... none of this comes without work.

 

So what is this work? You go somewhere, spend a few hours there 5 days out of the week and they give you money. Of course it wasn't that easy, as I grew up obtaining my first job at the age of 15 working in a McDonalds with a childhood friend of mine.

 

My parents wanted to raise me and my siblings the best way they could. Not everything was easy, and as a child, changes in human emotion was something I could sense behind a double sided mirror.

 

I want to have that. I want to see my family's smile as they watch me achieve all the dreams I told them about, yet worried of because as family, they want to see me happy, but understood more then I did that sometimes everything doesn't workout as we plan.

 

There are a lot of events that I didn't plan to happen. Attend a college outside of my hometown, living in a state without a single family member, bonding with strangers who later on became my greatest friends and distant members of my family.

 

As I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see me, I see everyone who has had an impact in my life. I have a lot of friends now who say "When you become famous, don't forget us little people."

 

Every day I step in front of a mirror, I don't see just me, I see a nostalgic self reflection compromised of everyone I love. Their likes, dislikes, and personality characteristics rubbed off on me in some way. If you care to say that I am different and not like everyone else. It's only because of everyone who have made an impact (small or big) in my life. And every time I look in the mirror, I see a nostalgic self reflection of us all.

 

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