“Who you are, i have been; who you’ll be, i am.” From a mirror in a bar i once was in–what’s it mean?

WHen looking into the mirror, you see yourself.

The mirror is hinting that you are seeing who you will be, rather than who you are.

However you’d like to take that, ie metaphoricly, etc is up to you

It could mean about stages in a person’s life: he has been to where you are now; where you’ll be in the future, he is where he is at present. Or, it could mean his experience: he has already undergone what you are dealing with at the present, and what you will be or do in the future is what he is doing or experiencing at the moment.

mirrors in bars always say stuff like that, come to think of it. but i never thought about it then, and i don’t know how to now.

i feel that it is a wizened person who has undergone a lot of difficulties in his life and was changed for the better who wrote it. its a positive message that gives hope that the one reading the it would also get through his troubles and learn from them.

its kind of like an adult talking to a child:they have been a child, that child is a child-that child will be an adult, they are an adult-they have experienced what the other has not.