Mirror Mirror

Reflection caged in a glass Almost every kid meets the underrated day wherein he finds himself staring at a mirror, watching his reflection mimic every single action he performs. I am an adult, yet I too found myself staring at the mirror. What could have made an adult like me get that curious wonder at a mirror that we ought to normally leave behind at childhood? Hang tight, read on, you would find out soon enough. Well, while I gazed on the ever shinny mirror, though this story is fictional, it embraced my mind like a sour memory. It is the story of two friends who though down and out, kept receiving a pounding from life's pitiless knuckles. Okiemute just received a sack letter from the job he had no option but to do, his friend Emu had just received a divorce letter from the woman he had no other option but to love because she was the only one who had ever given him open arms (only that has changed). Each friend beaten by depression had no time to look a mirror, else t...