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As I’d like to make this blog humorous, I will write a story.

Morning… 5 am. Most of ME is still sleeping, but some restless indefatigable part of ME is already up and wants me to do the same. No, no…. It is too early. I am lying still without opening my eyes unwilling to surrender the peaceful darkness. But that importunate part of me persists and gets its way. It makes me get up and feel my way to the bathroom. No sooner have I got there than I see somebody in the large mirror.

I ask: “Who are you?”

A stranger replies: “YOU”.

I wonder, really? The stranger says I need a cold shower and I agree without feeling like that at all. Then he makes me shave, do my hair and so on. I can’t help wondering why I am doing all that!!!! Looking at him again I suddenly realize I have already seen him and I ask if we have ever met before. The stranger starts laughing loudly and says:

“We have always been together, I am your best side, I am your obverse. Just look at me. I am handsome, physically fit and in a good shape, I look attractive and representative, I am a Harvard graduate and I am proud of being smart, well-round educated, professional and successful. But you are just an ungifted moke and bad composer, a mouse/couch potato, a rumpot on hangover. It is quite understandable you can’t recognize me. But I am YOU and don’t you even try to get rid of me ‘cause I will return as your endless remorse. Come to at last, your place is in your class and in your laboratory”.

Well, I tell you, I hate that stranger who always tells me what to do and keeps me under control. But I get into my car and drive 60 miles swearing just to enter my classroom and to say; “Morning, guys! Ready for the execution?” and to hear their infectious laughter, to see their shining eyes, to feel their thirst for knowledge. That moment I understand that stranger in the mirror, yes, he is the best side of mine. But the other side, the reverse, is not going to surrender! Life is endless fight with ourselves and there will never be any winner.