The Dark Side

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The Dark Side
Do you think you have a dark side? I know I do. I have shown my dark side towards others and scared them and myself. For example when I was in middle school I got into this fight with one of my best friends over some stupid reason or another in which I broke his arm accidentally. In “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King, hr wrote, “I think we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better—and maybe not all that much better, after all” (235). To me this statement sounds like we all have a dark side to our personality and I know that I hide my dark side quite a bit better then others. That is why I do believe that people do have a dark side and are too afraid to show that they do have one. There are ways to see that you do have a dark side just in the kind of movies/shows that you watch on television and at the theaters.
The way that I hide the dark side of my personality is by being really cheerful. When people get me angry with them I usually hold it inside of myself. I started to hold in my angry when I was very young in age because, I had epilepsy and if I got upset I went into a seizure and that is when all of my angry that was built up inside of me came out and I would attack people in my line of sight, Also, I hold in my sadness when I find out about bad news. I started doing this after I lost my first grandparent to death. Just a few years ago I was able to cry all of my sadness out of me when my dads’ wife had passed away.
Recently I have come to the conclusion that with me holding in my angry the way I did back in younger years was do to watching the old television series “The Incredible Hulk” starring Lou Fergno as the Incredible Hulk because, the Incredible Hulk was the dark side of Dr. David Banner. When I used to go into a seizure due to getting upset it was like when Dr. Banner turned into the Incredible Hulk when Dr. Banner got angry. After the...