Why do we see our reflection when seeking answers?

I don't know who I want to be, just a better me than who I am in the present. I'm scared in the sense it's unknown but excited I have control over it. Realistically, as I mentioned before, I am learning what it really means to be responsible for yourself and these instances constantly remind me I have a long way to go. I have a lot yet to achieve, a lot yet to fail and so much more to dream that there are moments where I remember I am still a child, no matter how old I become or how experienced I'll be. 

Being alive isn't about taking risks or overcoming challenges to achieve dreams, I certainly believe this is part of it but not all of it. I decided being alive has different meanings throughout the different stages of our life. How cheap, that we only have one meaning for life when we are worth much more? When we are baby's we live to discover, when kids we live to learn, when teenagers we live to discern, young adults live for responsibility, adults live for freedom, and seniors live for rediscovery. I am young, dumb and on my way up through the latter but am aware of what goes around me, within me and through me so I won't permanently lose my way. Which I believe is impossible for any person to be lost and beyond being found.

Life is so amazing that you have time to do all the things you want to do, and so each desire and each disappointment should all be honored. Every aspect of each person are not "mistakes" or "flaws" but echoes of who we are. I still find it amazing how even when alive there are people who haven't lived and  are full of experience and knowledge yet, don't understand the basic meaning of life-to be happy. 

What makes you happy isn't what satisfies you or makes you wanting for more but what is reason enough to even attempt living. There is no materialistic object, place or thing that can abide by this. 

Ill give you a clue-Look in the mirror. 

Gabriela