The Great Gatsby | Can you recognize the person you’ve become?

How do you look at yourself in the mirror without cracking?

What if you fall to pieces?

You’ve worked so hard to move forward.

You’ve made tweaks along the way.

But something is holding you back from taking that long look at yourself.

We focus on what we are striving to achieve.

And that can bring us further away from reflecting on who we are and what we’ve become.

In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby has built a life around a love interest.

He has built himself up.

He has created a persona that makes him magnetic.

And over the course of his story, we see the cracks in the person Gatsby actually is.

Sometimes we build a version of ourselves to reach a dream.

But then we have to ask whether that version is still us.

Looking in the mirror allows us to identify the things we want to work on.

The things we would like to change.

And when cracks are formed, they can be repaired.

The structure can become stronger in the long run.

But if we run away from that person, we risk losing ourselves to others.

And finding our way back to our true selves may not happen.

The Great Gatsby left me reflective, unsettled, and thoughtful.

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