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The Monster is not out there circling her. It’s not someone else. It’s inside her head. It is her.
As Carl Jung said, “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”
Normal is a construct. A story people tell themselves. It’s what everyone does—feigns some concept of normalcy. Stories people tell themselves are the only reality humans know.
People live in the six inches of real estate between their ears—in that three pounds of fat and protein that is the human brain. They live inside their heads. That’s where reality resides. That’s where every single human constructs an individual narrative of their life.
“We all need a mask in order to function. But wear the mask too long and we forget who really lives behind it. Right? We forget our authentic selves.”
I have everything people say they want. Which means I also have everything to lose. And it’s like . . . I feel like this is this devil in me that is trying to lose it all. Because if I do lose it, if I am exposed, then I won’t have to try so hard to keep on my mask.”
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung had said: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
