Happiness

Obstacles to our happiness abound. The best work of our lives is in setting aside, going around or just seeing through these impediments. The abiding condition that seals happiness into a visible but unreachable dimension outside our plane of existence is our own character.

how to tell if yer head aint on straight

When you ponder whom your actions might offend, you are looking toward and arranging your future.
When you ponder who has offended you, you are looking toward and arranging your past.

Some do both. Many get stuck on just one of those tracks. The future is all that remains of your life. As you move forward through life, which way are you looking?

She was mostly an object in the mirror

Whether an object in the mirror is real or an illusion depends on whether you are aware of the mirror.

And it is a very very low limit too.

There is a limit to the utility of letting the past as you remember it or the future as you imagine it haunt your present.