Confronted with Sin in the Mirror of Ersid

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Introduction

Most weekdays I am awakened by the obnoxious sound of my wife’s alarm going off, and as she scurries off into the bathroom to put on her makeup and get her hair ready, I begin the day by putting one of my screens in front of my face to scroll through Facebook, TikTok, or Twitter. Today was no different.

I pulled up TikTok, and the first video I came across was someone asking the question, “What do you think you see if you looked into the Mirror of Erised?”

I don’t know if it was the fact that I’ve been internally struggling with a lot things lately or if it was the stress that I am under or if it was me not getting enough sleep, but that was a question I couldn’t handle that early in the morning. Honestly, it’s a not a question that I can wrestle with in any other way than to write about it.

For those who don’t know, the Mirror of Erised is an item in the Wizarding World. Albus Dumbledore shows Harry the mirror and tells him that if he loo…