MIRROR
THE CARRIED WHY
Seven Questions for the Mirror
A complimentary reflection resource for readers of Cost > Why.
How will you carry your Why into the dark?
THE MIRROR
The story asks three questions.
What do you dream?
What will you do?
What are you willing to pay?
The Carried Why carries those questions beyond the story and returns them to the reader.
The Mirror is not cruel.
It does not punish the dream.
It removes the hiding place.
THE REFLECTION
The story can end while the question keeps moving.
The Carried Why is a complimentary reflection created for readers who want to carry Cost > Why beyond the final page.
It does not summarize the story or explain the Seven Laws again. It returns the questions to the person holding them.
What did your Why make beautiful enough to love?
What did it ask your hands to carry?
What did you pay to let it live?
Seven Questions for the Mirror moves from willingness to evidence, from what we say we want to what our choices have made visible.
The Mirror can reveal the room.
Only a hand can change it.
A choice is not proven because it was named.
It is proven when it meets reality and leaves evidence.
What has left your hand, and what has grown because of it?
The Mirror asks for willingness.
The Lock asks for evidence.
THE MIRROR
The Mirror has asked its questions.
The hand must answer them.