The pain of a breaking facade

Who can guess the thoughts of the first person who discovered a mirror? Maybe it was a little child looking at its own image in the water, never told anyone, never got any fame for its discovery.. or a couple sitting at the shore of a lake suddenly realising their double staring back at them. One of the so called historical facts is just that already 8000 B.C. some sort of mirror existed in the form of polished bronze and in the 13th century, who would have guessed that, it was in Germany where someone managed to place a piece of metal against the backside of a flat piece of glass which was the beginning of the moving story of the real mirror! Today mirrors inspire lots of wise people to develop lots of clever thoughts about these shiny objects, like: Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.. Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.. or my favourite: When looking for faults use a mirror not a telescope.. What the world really needs though is a mirror which doesn't break.. like mine did today. I don't like realising that it's just a bit of glass with a thin reflecting layer underneath, we like to keep up the facade even if it only concerns small details in our daily life, like little mirrors.