Well, let's jump in today's topic.

And before we.

I'll let you begin.

Rafiki.

I did want to read something.

Go ahead.

I've been a victim of selfish kind of love it's time that I realized that there are some with no home with not a nickel to loan could it be really me Pretending that they're not alone A willow deeply scared Somebody's broken heart and a washed out dream they follow the pattern of the wind, you see because they got no place to be that's why I'm starting with me.

Starting with the man in the mirror.

I'm asking him to change his ways.

And no message could ever be been any clearer.

If you want to make the world a better place Take a look at yourself, then make the change.

Do you know where that came from?

I don't know where exactly it came from, but it.

But that was a very good, powerful message right there.

Michael Jackson.

The great Michael Jackson.

RIP Mike.

That came straight from his song man in the Mirror.

Funny you said that, but we'll get into that later.

All right, so which is our topic of today?

Looking in the mirror.

Take it away, Mr. Rafiki.

I just want to start off with this right here.

A lot of people can't look themselves in the mirror.

And the reason why they can't look themselves in the mirrors.

Because they're afraid or they're ashamed of what they see.

They're afraid to go within.

And that's the reason why they struggle looking into the mirror.

The reason why I actually chose this topic is because that's what I'm going through right now.

I'm basically in that stage of finding who I am, trying to speak to my inner self, heal my inner self.

And a lot of people don't understand that.

That's where it's at.

You know, they want to judge the world, but they don't want to judge their self.

And I think that's what people need to start doing instead of judging other people by what they see.

Because you don't know truly what that other person may or may not be going through.

So change does start with self.

That's where it starts at.

And we have to get to the state where we can actually look into the mirror.

I'm not talking about looking in the mirror.

Just brush your hair, put on your makeup.

I ain't talking about that.

I'm talking about truly looking into that mirror and seeing what you see.

Look at them deep scars.

Speak to those deep scars.

Speak to those wounds.

Heal yourself.

Well, what.

What made you want to look in the mirror?

Because I wasn't happy with myself and I realized that I got.

Yeah, I'll go to the mirror, I fix myself up or whatever and get out of there.

But here lately, I've been going to that mirror and actually talking to myself.

Wait, you talk to yourself?

Yeah, I talk to myself.

I. I hear other voices, but those other voices to me is my ancestors speaking back to me.

They're encouraging me

mental.

Do you think it's important for somebody to be able to do this?

I think it is.

I think it's very important for everyone to do this.

How so?

Why so why?

Many reasons.

It's a part of, It's a part of, of.

Of knowing who you really are, what, what you are, right?

That, that, that self.

Self worth that you're finding out, you know, that, that

it's day.

Painted man.

It is man.

It is man.

So, so the why should somebody look in the mirror, learn to look in the mirror is what?

Knowing,

accepting who they are, no matter what they look like on the outside.

Because our outsiders just basically are our shell.

And also, you said it also healing.

I think that's.

I think that's a big.

I think that is one of the big key factors of why it's important to look in the mirror to heal.