One of my favorite comic super heroes is Batman. Even if in the movies, he had been portrayed by numerous actors - excellent and bad ones - Batman remains top on my list.
I like his persona because he's haunted by his childhood trauma, and this made him both weak and strong.
A lot of us non-heroic mortals are haunted by our past, and Freudian thought has taught us that a lot of our problems in adulthood can be traced to childhood dilemmas, and often, brought about by the adults around us, especially by our parents.
A week ago, we sought help from a lady lawyer for our friends who experienced violence in the hands of their closest relative. Upon reviewing the case, she commented that there's always a "dark" persona in every family, including her own.
Batman has his dark side: he is moody, he is a womanizer, he is uncommunicative, he cannot move on from his past, in spite and despite of his millions.
Many of us, although accused and judged by people around us, has remained procrastinators throughout our lives. We can't just shake the dust off our coats; we remain glued to scenes of us as five years old, in our twelves, twenties, thirties. We continue to keep mementos of rejected work, clippings of old projects, small photographs of unforgotten people, old and un-mailed letters, trashy poetry, old ATM slips, old boarding passes, etc.
Darkness looms everywhere; evil surrounds us.
But the Dark Knight is pure gold, at heart.
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