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I've been enjoying polishing my mirror for 20 years today.

Fine mirrors are one of the most accurate surfaces made by man. I once read that if a small mirror was expanded to the size of a football field, then the mirror’s surface would vary less than 1/30 millimeter!  The surface of a glass mirror must be (pardon the pun), mirror smooth, because, for a mirror to be accurate, the light must pass through the layer of glass and reflect off of the "silver" applied to the back side of the glass.

The more a mirror is properly polished, the more accurate it's reflection.  It's not uncommon for super-accurate mirrors, such as those used in telescopes, to be polished for hours and hours.

Mirrors, you see, aren't born.  They're made.  

To create one, you must take two different ingredients (the glass and the silver), and combine them exactly in the right way and at the right time.  And then you must put in the hard work of polishing the mirror until you a have a perfect reflection.

Similarly, I don't believe soul mates are born "destined" for one another.  It would be beyond tragic, with seven billion people on this planet if soul mates were born.  You would have a 1 in 7,000,000,000 chance of meeting your soul mate.

No, it's not as simple as "meeting the right person", because, like mirrors, soul mates are made.  The two souls must, of course, attract, but once they come together in the right way and at the right time, they begin the hard, but joyful work of polishing:  The process by which those souls make two reflections into one.

Twenty years ago today, I married my mirror.

And we've spent every day of the past 20 years polishing that mirror, and making our two souls closer and closer to one.

Twenty wonderful years of polishing and now, when I look at my beautiful wife, as the song says, it's like she's my mirror.  My mirror staring back at me. [1]

It boggles my mind to think how beautiful that reflection will be after 20 more years of polishing.  And I look forward to that joyful work.

I Love You, PJ.

Happy Anniversary.

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[1] Inspired by the lyrics of Justin Timberlake's song "Mirrors"