Exercise in Being Here, day 8: windows

A window can be a mirror at the same time, like any shiny surface, and sometimes a mirror is a window as well, but only if you let it be one. It transports you to other worlds, to other mindsets, it lets you see what is on the other side.

On the other side of what, you may ask? On the other side of what you think reality is showing you, beyond the visible but not necessarily less real. When you can touch something, hold something, feel something, you know it is real, it exists, you know you are real, you exist. A literal touching, as in touching a tree, a table, somebody’s hand, holding as in holding an apple, a tool, a plate with food, feeling as in feeling the wind in your hair, a hand in your hand, the pain in your stomach. But also touching in the meaning of moving, of emotions being moved, a holding of something, somebody, in your thoughts, holding space, holding the world in your hands, feeling sad, feeling happy, feeling both at the same time.