# Duality

Author: Werefox Inari Sachi
Tags: Philosophy, Self-Examination

_What must we endure, to be 'us'?_

"I don't know. I don't know."

There is a divide, between who you are, and your ideal self: the you inside the shell.

_Look in the mirror, but you won't see me._

"I know, I know! There is little I can do but endure."

_Look at me, inside your head. This is who 'you' are._

There is a divide, and it's not certain if your body was meant to cross it.

_I look so fat today._

"This is not what we are."

You determine to fight it: predestination, age, sex, the will of God. But you end up fighting yourself.

_I want them dead, for trying to prevent us both being one._

"People can't do that in this life. We'll be imprisoned."

_Even more deeply so than already, perhaps... but their jokes are making us less real..._

"Making us both into objects."

_I want..._

"I want..."

_Their voices dead._

"Just so. We won't kill them, though."

_It's imperative, we mustn't._

"But we still hate them for their blind opinions."

_We hate that it hurts our chances to be together._

You and I.

_You, the face._

"And you, the soul."

The rules are complicated lies.

_It seems that your soul belongs to a creator._

"It seems that your appearance must be dictated by etiquette and style."

_Look at us now, we are ungainly, overweight, crooked and bent, fat, and marked in ungainly places._

"We are not molding our shape to you successfully."

_I want to be seen by all, for my naked splendor._

"The world finds that indecent, so we must adopt you subtly. Our body is limited, while you are not."

_I don't like compromising._

"Sadly, nature forces our hand."

_I want to kill nature. I want to rearrange its organs, and resuscitate it into something wondrous._

Yeah, we're a mess.

_Think of it this way--if you pass on, and leave your shell and still exist, is there any need for this divide--_

"Think of it this way. You only need a face to wear on top of your soul."

_If you could exist--_

"If you could exist without that divide,"

_You would only just, as they suggest--'be yourself'._

But instead, you are two beings, at war.

_A raw intense, beautiful inside_

"A cautious, eroding outside; a bastion like a lighthouse, that learns to direct, and to let that raw beauty out."

Ultimately, do you entertain this game?

"Or like us,"

_Or like us, do you long for the termination of this game?_

**What is the 'real' you, even?**

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