“I don’t befriend anyone! I smile, make love, rob people, kill them if they resist. It’s MY life. Everyone else who lives around is only “I”, not “we or us”. The sphere I and many others of my species live is called EGO!
People outside EGO are very happy but inside this I see myself as happy as a guy hanging out with a pretty girl, two young men enjoying a ride on the bike, and that rich man waving at a mob around him. I am happy with me.
I walk out of EGO with my body BUT NOT MY MIND. Minds never leave EGO.
People can identify me and others from EGO because no one will ever meet eyes with anyone not belonging to EGO. People just pass by and never talk to me, but he did when I was walking along the woods, about to enter EGO. He called me from behind to help him with his car. He should have known I won’t help but he still did and said the forbidden word, “Please!” My heart pumped! I GLITCHED and felt disconnected from EGO! I walked back to help him with his car that needed a few pushes to get going.
“When I say ‘Now’, you have to push. Ok?” he said sitting in the car. I nodded.
“Ok…Now!”
I pushed it. It just won’t move in the first go! I kept pushing with all my power. It started to move, and finally accelerated! “All good!” he shouted.
“Man! I knew you would help!” he said as I jogged up to the front door. I glitched again. EGO was calling me. I had overstayed out of it!
“Hey, you ok? “Come on in.”
“No. I must go.” I replied and ran into the woods.
Next day he waited for I on the same road between the woods. “Hey!” he drove alongside him. “Hey, I just wanted to say “thanks.” I could keep a date because of you! Thanks a lot.” I didn’t reply. I was new to him probably.
“I need your help today. Would you please help me?” he continued. I glitched, my heart pumped twice.
“Please come in so that we can talk about it.” I was disconnected from EGO, Completely. He sat in and was drove by him to COMPASSION.
The light was blinding and divine. He and I stepped out of the car. They were greeted by LOVE and FRIENDSHIP who punched “WE BELONG HERE” on the palm of I as a welcome gift. Everything seemed so beautiful and enlighten! He told I that he made it to his world yesterday because of his help and he wanted I to join the world of COMPASSION.
“My mind is still in EGO. I am not allowed to bring it out of there. I need to be killed in EGO, brought out and made alive here in COMPASSION to belong to this world. I can’t belong here without my MIND!”
“He will kill you.” said He.
He and I drove to EGO. I entered EGO. He couldn’t entre because EGO would never allow anyone from COMPASSION to let in!
He returned to COMPASSION and told LOVE that EGO won’t let him in. LOVE gave him a key to the backdoors of SELFISHNESS. “You will find many doors of selfishness around EGO. Enter through anyone of them. You won’t be stopped.”
It was true. He entered and found many like I. He didn’t know how to call him. Everyone was I. He said, I need your help! Everyone Glitched! Please I, I need your help! Everyone Glitched! He was confused. He didn’t know how to call I.
The stamp on the palm! He turned every hand to see the stamp. After scanning many, he found one!
He took out the SWORD of WORD and Killed I! EGO shocked!
He dragged I out of the doors of SELFISHNESS and drove to COMPASSION. I was kissed by FRIENDSHIP back to life!
“Welcome to COMPASSION!” he said.
“But Mom, why did Compassion kill? How can something good be bad?” asked the girl whom her mother narrated the story for the first time, while the boy stared at the car that looked fabulous!
“That’s the Dark Side of it, darling. Compassion can make you Selfish, drive you to do anything to get what you want! Even take someone’s life!”
BY YUMNA MAHMOOD
BASED ON THE SONG, DARK SIDE BY Neoni
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