How much of your ‘evil twin’ is really you?

CoillteSpirit
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

I was around the house, just clearing up and I heard my dad speaking to his partner about her dramatic changes in opinion, particularly when it came to her voicing her feelings on a certain topic to him. My father described this as the work of her ‘evil twin’, pledging to stir unrest among the general psyche at the time.

When I hear people refer to this ‘uncharacteristic’ voice inside them, no matter what they choose to call it, (whether it be their ‘dark side’ or indeed ‘evil twin’) this always gets me thinking… how much of that ‘dark’ or ‘evil’ voice is actually their own primary voice of reason? Why do we subconsciously allow ourselves to entertain stranger perhaps more sinister ideas, realise that we are uncomfortable with allowing ourselves to come into contact with such logic, then brand it and call it our ‘dark side’? Are there sides at all?

Of course, there was no harm in what my father’s other half was talking about. It wasn’t sinister or cruel, but suppose we nurture this way of thinking and create a situation where we think of something so awful and scary that only our ‘dark side’ could possibly conjure. If it is so bad that we immediately feel uncomfortable with the thought even crossing our minds, then why did it occur in the first place? If this was to happen to you, would you suppress this thought, idea or action, or would you learn from it. Would it help you to understand more about yourself? I would argue so.

There are no evil twins of course, in the literal sense. I would plead with people to refrain from suppressing any thoughts that they are ashamed they came up with, because when all is said and done, their logic path has brought them to that conclusion, and thus it is a part of them now. And it is only then that they can truly take something with them from that experience and choose whether to act on that sudden impulsive idea/emotion.

We shouldn’t be asking ourselves, ‘how much of my ‘evil twin’ is really me?’ Instead we should really be questioning how much we allow our darker thoughts to change how we act. Because when all is said and done, thoughts are just thoughts, never acted out unless we allow them to be. And it is those actions we choose to carry out which demonstrate to the world who we are.

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