I had a weird dream one night. When I woke up the next morning, I realized that I had been transformed. It was not a situation most of us would want to be in, not even in our dreams. And I wasn’t too pleased about it, either! However, I discovered that being ‘it’... is not the worst feeling in the world, after all.

I was waiting in the restroom for somebody to come and rescue me. To my delight, a stocky man walked in. He had the trappings that one associates with distinguished gentlemen. Perhaps, he had come in to check if he appeared presentable. And suddenly, he did something that made me wince. He started picking his nose and I reckoned to myself - that’s the most disgusting scene I had ever been witness to. Well, status doesn’t change who you are....

Somebody once said - mirrors don’t reverse left and right. They just show what is in front of them - the truth about who and what you are! It didn’t take long for this reality to sink in as a girl walked up to me and stared for a while. She pulled a comb and a lipstick out of her bag and while she was ‘in the process’, she started speaking to me, “If Rohan wants it, so be it!” It dawned on me. She was ‘masking’ herself to please Rohan, whoever that was. The real ’she’ was standing in front of me, anguished and heartbroken. I wondered if ‘beautiful’ girls were really happy or is everything ‘masked’? I would never know...

As time ticked away, I was longing to be set free.. And moments later, another girl walked up to me. She had ugly scars on her face. She started weeping. I don’t recollect the exact words, but I do remember that she was talking about her boyfriend. They had been committed for two years. And one day, as they were driving to her place, they met with an accident and the irreparable consequence was the pitiful state of her ‘once pretty’ face. Her boyfriend had ditched her as he found her too ‘repulsive’. I wanted to tell her that people who go by appearances do not deserve love. I was disappointed that the words weren’t flowing out. I wanted to give her a hug and make her feel wanted. And then, I realized it was impossible because..... I had been transformed into...a Mirror!!!