Mirror, mirror "where am I?"

Just reading an email which gave me a sudden insight... long have i contemplated my reflection trying to decipher what it means to say that the reflection if of "me".

Here's a thought. Do you see the reflection of yourself from the inside or the outside?

Obviously it's from the outside. This means that you must be outside of your reflection. If you are outside your reflection then, how can it be your reflection? You are after all inside yourself ... right?

In the mirror you look just like anyone else. Doesn't that suggest that in reality we look just like anyone else? If we reflect the mirror back to get an idea of what is real, doesn't that mean not only that we look like everyone else, but that we are outside ourself?

But if we were outside ourself then surely we wouldn't need a mirror? And in the mirror we wouldn't be able to see ourself, as is normally the case?

Whichever way we go the mirror seems to leave a paradox of "where am I"?

Bit closer, good email that (called "The Mirror" about the colleague who has hindered everyone and has died, but then people find a mirror in coffin!)