“I’m starting with the man in the mirror,
I’m asking him to change his ways.”
by Michael Jackson

Question: What did the registrar auditor do after informing his client that he wasn’t allowed to give advice?

Answer: He gave them advice.

I like to listen to Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror.” Yeah, so what? I’m sure there are songs that you like to listen to but don’t want others to know about. The only difference is that you’re not dumb enough to inform 30,000 subscribers like I’m doing.

In my defense though, it is a really cool song, and it continually motivates me to improve who I am. What’s wrong with that? Jackson sings the song with such conviction that as I sing the song along with him I can feel myself gritting my teeth and getting pumped up with the same conviction, until someone notices, and then I pretend there’s food stuck in between my teeth, and I pick it out with a fingernail.

What’s great about the song are the words and the conviction. I try to block out who’s singing the song and what appears to be the hypocrisy between the words of the song and the singer himself. I love the lyric—

“I’m starting with the man in the mirror.
I’m asking him to change his ways.”

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