My Tyler Durden is a Latina
Street art at the art festival of Loja |
I never understood why
certain people developed alter egos or double personalities, but two weeks ago,
I developed mine: Rebecca.
She wasn’t planning on
destroying skyscrapers or loudly copulating with the girl I’m twistedly attracted
to, but she did fight for me when I was powerless, just like Tyler did in Fight
Club.
I developed Rebecca as a
character for a future short story as I was walking to work one day. She is a
168 cm young Latina, in her early twenties, with a sassy temperament and no
filter. She always wears black or red high heels, with dark blue skinny jeans, a
tucked-in white blouse with the top two buttons undone, and a red handkerchief
around her neck, to balance out her cherry lipstick and fair skin.
Once I had the character
developed, I described her to Erato and she gave her the name: Rebecca. At
first Erato found the character entertaining, but as Rebecca developed in my
head she started intervening in my life, by vicariously expressing herself
through me. Every time I didn’t like something, but couldn’t say anything, Rebecca
emerged from the deepest, darkest corner of my brain and won the argument
against Erato, using passive aggression, witty remarks, or simply bringing up
something that Erato had done is the past, but was not necessarily related to
the topic.
Two day ago, I had to sit
down and have a personal intervention and let Rebecca go. She is now roaming
the streets of Loja, on her own, and terrorizing people that pass her, by
identifying their insecurities and making a nasty remark about them and their
flaws.
After the intervention I turned
to Erato and said softly, “You met me at a very strange time of my life.”
A.D.
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