‘Nice guy next door’ might be living
as normal neighbor with secret life
By Mark Baldridge
Diversions Editor
It’s always the guy no one sus
pects.
“He was a quiet fella. Kept to
himself,” his neighbors will say of
him afterward — when the televi
sion reporters show up with cam
eras and mikes.
"Seemed 1 ike a nice enough guy. ”
But all along, the “nice guy" has
been selling military secrets, deal
ing in heroin, living a separate
existence.
We all have secret selves, other
lives that we keep apart from our
daily routines.
If you doubt it, think about this:
Your father and your mother are
lovers, or once were.
Most of the time we don’t think
about it, but everyone we meet has
fantasies, desires. And many of them
are actively seeking out means to
fulfill those needs.
Your loan officer, your English
teacher, your wacky neighbor are
all on trajectories unknown, and
largely un
knowable
to you.
They are
looking
for some
thing, try
ing to
keep what
they have
worked so
hard toget,
trying to
keep from going under:
And our secret identities must be
protected. We feel vulnerable, ex
posed, when people get too close
to the secret self.
None of this is bad. It’s neces
sary, otherwise we wouldn’t need
bathroom doors.
Hut when too much pressure
builds up — when the differences
between our private inner livesand
our outer personae grows too great
— bad things can happen. It be
comes difficult to reconcile all the
various facets of our personalities;
we fracture and break.
That’s why we need to talk about
these things. Why we need to rec
ognize that the dark desires of our
own hearts, while unique to us
individually, are not too terribly far
removed from the secret wishes of
others.
If everyone saw suddenly into
the hearts of everyone else, the
final result would be recognition.
We would each see our own "ter
rible secrets” mirrored infinitely in
our contemporaries. And there
would finally be understanding.
There is evil in the world, there
is wrong. But most of the things we
are afraid of in ourselves are com
mon to humanity.
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