Ghost of the past

He looks at himself in the mirror.
Like a horror flick his image snickers under its breath and menacingly glares back even as he stood still.
His image then turned it's back on him and walks away into the pitch black background of the mirror
As the size of his own image grows smaller, he feel the emotional weights from his own past being lifted off.

Regrets, painful memories, sad moments, heartbreaks all fading away into the void symbolized by his image walking away from him
The phantom of his past leaving him. He felt free from emotional bonds. He thought to himself "Finally, I can live".