10.12.25: The Gym Mirror

The gym mirror is brutal. It doesn’t care how much progress you think you’ve made. It shows you under harsh lights, sweaty, red-faced, lifting weights that suddenly look much smaller in reflection. But the mirror is also honest. It shows the grind, the effort, the reality behind all the motivational quotes online. No filters, no angles. Just you, pushing against gravity, fighting your own excuses. You don’t get six-pack abs from flexing in that mirror. You get them from coming back again and again, even when you hate it. The mirror never lies. But it does occasionally smirk.