Devil's Advocate

Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?
Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help

There is a devil inside each one of us. However hard we may try to refute this fact,its a universal truth. It nudges us in the most unseeming of situations, makes us wonder about thoughts that we should not even venture into.

Haven't you ever encountered him?? He is right there inside you. Making you do things that you wouldn't otherwise do. Making you feel at the moment of other's victory that, that moment might have been yours had you got the opportunity. Making you feel that the well-deserved promotion of your colleague should have been rightfully your. Making you jealous when a friend steals the march on you in exams. You are glad when a friend gets the job but are sad that you didn't make it. He is the one that forces you to be the center of all attention. Makes you do things in a group that you otherwise wouldn't . He is the face that rears itself when you are stoned out of your mind.

This devil that i av been talking about in the previous paragraph is nothing but our other self. A self that we keep hidden. One that rears its head in the form of jealously, spite, anger, vengeance, etc.. a number of names that we call our second self.

Everyone wants to be loved for themselves. But each one of us has an ugly side. A side that sometimes makes us act in ways that we normally would not have. One that makes us laugh when we torment someone with our acts. It is fun for us but not for the other person. A side that finds solace when we indulge ourselves. Most of the times we keep this side of our's hidden but it comes out however hard we may try. A side that makes us want fame, money, position... everything glitzy... however loudly we might proclaim to the world that we are simple hardworking souls who want just satisfaction...

If we look into this from another angle... we might see that it may be the devil in us that makes us succeed...that goads us into working hard...that sometimes makes us take a path that we normally would not av traversed... gives us the guts to take hard decisions... and sometimes makes us avenge ourselves to our utter satisfaction. A satisfaction that we might not have got had we remained angelic in nature or lets me say... too straightforward...

coz sometimes in this world we need something to push ourselves further...
that is exactly what our other side provides. Love it or hate it...It's there by your side.Period.