This is all credit to a very life opening tumblr post! I saw it and immediately thought, what the heck? Why not try to write about it?
You know how you can't walk through a mirror?
What if you can't because your reflection is saving you from something terrible. Maybe their is a life behind that mirror, but your reflection is saving you from coming to their side.
But what if you were the reflection.
Those random cuts and bruises are your reflection's cuts and bruises. These show up on your body when your reflection is at a near death point, which means you are at a near death point.