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WARNING: I hereby say that I cannot speak for everyone, and that I only speak for myself/people that outright agree with me blindly.
I woke up this morning feeling a little stoic and distant. I didn’t exactly know what was up until I started walking for Barnes and Noble. I was thinking about how a number of religions ask people to give themselves up in order to reach the final truth- and I think that I realized a part of what they mean. The concept is generally the eternally repeated “great battle within oneself” that is usually shown best with the Legend of Zelda’s “dark link”. You fight yourself either physically or philosophically in order to still the raging being within. But I personally think that’s not all it is. I think its more like finding all the things that make you lash out at the world and the root of those feelings –basically most the stuff that made you you—and then getting rid of all of it. What harder fight with the self would be to literally fight to destroy parts of you that MAKES YOU who you are? Maybe that’s what it really means to win the battle within oneself. Normal people can’t accept everything in the world and to do so would be in conflict with who they are. What compelled me to think of all this is a weird thing; I honestly don’t know and think that it may have come about from possibly subtler mood swings in men.
Maybe, but then again I’m mildly crazy.