My Alter-Ego has an Ego!

Reading the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde i come to a state of wondering questions and a lot of curiosity. To sum up the drive to this curiosity is the fact that in the book, Dr. Jekyll has a psychological battle within himself of the so-called evil side. In his quest he turns into a violent and evil monster of the name Mr. Hyde. With that being said it came to my attention, do we as humans have a Hyde in us? Do we have this so call dark side? Through out the media and literature we have cases of alter egos for the better or worst. You might say super heroes in comic books have a double life but they choose to use theirs for good. Or the villains who were once good but choose a life a crime and further their power with catastrophes or mental problems. It all narrows down to the fact of who are those who lead a good life but tend to have a little bit of evil either characteristics or actions in their life.

Do you consider a graffiti writer to be those kind of people. Majority of them have a decent living in the morning, working and paying bills, might even help a lady cross the street. But once the clock strikes twelve and they gallivant the streets looking for property to vandalize, is this their evil side at play? Can we judge them as being a evil person? Or how about rappers? Are they consider to have the syndrome of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for some of these rappers have children and live an ordinary life. But use their words and their outlet of music to sell such things as violence, drug selling or consuming, some to the further extent of glorifying the degrading of women. Would they be considered a Mr. Hyde? 

You might say to yourself, "Not everyone is a rapper or a graffiti writer!" And your RIGHT! But how about when you proceed yourself to be another person in front of a group of people or just in a different environment? Then the cards change. Because whether or not we don't all do the actions we would do with our friends in front of our parents or higher authority figure and we won't do things we do for our parents in front of out friends. It might not be bad deeds and it surely might not be good ones, but where is the line where you change? Some might say i am the same way around my parents i am around my friends and that i keep it real. If so do you use prophanity in the same context with your parents as with your friends? Or just when your in angry? Would you drink in front of an older crowd? And if so would you get intoxicated like the way you get with your friends or other crowd?



It all boils down to respect. But i also think it has to do with something of an up bring and that side of your brain that says...



Go ahead you deserve a break. You haven't had one of those in months. You'll start new on Monday. It's ok they'll understand. Nobody can stop you. Don't worry about it; you'll be able to fix it later. It feels so good! Maybe you shouldn't but fuck it! 



Words that is too familiar. It’s the part of you that knows its wrong but numbs the right to give you a sense of confidence and high. We sometimes get engulfed in these feelings or words in our head that we further forget of how our heart or gut feels. We then totally embodied the Mr. Hyde within ourselves. It can be from anything of breaking a diet to doing drugs. From shopping to cheating on the ones we love. At the end of the day we are only cheating ourselves it’s just the mishaps that it leaks out to the people that are around us.