Reflections from an old mirror never looked this... ugly

Yes, Miss L, they say that people have two faces. Well, I have seven.

That aside, the dark side is all not who you are Miss L. For humans are not pure, they can live only through the combinations of behavior that constitutes their relational and survival skills. These are often conflicting because in order to live, we must often go down so low in order to survive, or cope with whatever we are facing. Like hate, depression and general anger towards anything, Miss L.

When people repress their darker sides (we have varying degrees of evil), may I ask you, what happens? They won’t know themselves. The persistent belief that light conquers your soul is simply absurd. Even in nature, the sol invictus, the invincible sun must yield to the blackness of night. But the night, which swoops down on all the world and engulfs it in it’s shadows will be again driven away by the rosy fingers of dawn. Imagine Miss L, rosy. As in tender. Night yields to tenderness.

Knowing your reflection, even if it is an alternate you, is important. Even if the reflected image may look more bloody, more depressed, more deranged than you usually are, accepting it will be the pivot point of your life right now, Miss L. Those memories you tried to repress, all those hate, sadness and suffering you tried to shadow with the reflected light of other people’s happiness is what created your darker side. Treat it as another self, a self which might have been the real “you” if things didn’t go out the way they are today. This self would help you deal with the darkness in your life and the darkness in other people’s hearts. What’s important is that you confront your alternate without averting your eyes, no matter what you see. Because being human is having both of them within you.

Your actions are not important to me Miss L, what I would like to see is that other side in you, that evasive little ray of sunshine that I have sought after all this time. The darkness in your soul only accentuates and emphasizes the light within you. So Miss L, come back. Come back.

(for the fallen angel Maki Horikita and Miss L.)