The Monster In Every Man
(Behind The Mask - The Battle Within!) Regardless of sex, race, religion or beliefs, no man can be fully understood by another. What you know of a person is but a fraction of who entirely he or she is. The complexity of the human self makes it difficult to fully comprehend what makes up a man. You may be able to divine the traits of a person or be informed of the genetics but surely not the entirety of the person. In our Social Studies classroom, we learnt about Self as a concept. We understood that apart from the true self of a person, there are the other and ideal types of self. Usually, we are only privileged to know people by their true self. Behind the other self, is the monster in every man. However, while some are able to tame this monster, others have not had mastery over it. Be it a clergyman, politician, teacher, policeman, or whatever category a person belongs to, it takes a lot of efforts to suppress the monster. I have seen clergymen whose belts loosen at the sight...