I am not an easy person to understand; the different aspects of my emotional and mental personality are entwined across heartstrings and silver tendrils of my soul. They weave a tangled web that may look like an intricate knot but is really a prismatic sculpture of unbreakable bonds.
Emotionally, I am closed off to the world. I wear a metal mask that I can shape and mold to reflect what I want others to see. As an actress, this comes easily to me. However, on the inside, my emotions are fire.
Euphoria, despair, and everything in between burn the hottest with dark blue flames. The power of the heat, 
however, always waxes and wanes with the intensity of the emotion. Ranges of anger, fear, and determination glow white hot with ferocity to rival those of the blue flames… and yet the blue is somehow hotter, stronger, and brighter. Amber and copper consume compassion, serenity, love, and selflessness as fuel for to their flames… curiously, while these are the coolest of my emotions – though by no means cool enough to touch without sustaining severe burns- they also happen to be the flames that blaze the highest and the longest. They are the emotions that – when ignited – sear me most often.
Compassion, serenity, love, and selflessness. They are the hardest to bear, but they are the things that burn the brightest.
My metal mask expands to encompass my entire psyche, doing so in order to protect the vulnerable flesh and blood within. I use caustic words as a defense when people begin to probe the cracks in my steel suit of armored protection, but more often than not, harshness is a last resort next.
I try to use compassion, serenity, love, and selflessness. But sometimes I slip.
The majority of the time, an image of false origins will be reflected onto the cool, molten silver surface that encapsulates the smouldering heat within. This keeps them all at bay; people watch what is projected and believe it.
Meanwhile, the hollow caverns of my veins reverberate with stinging pain and scorching joy; my hidden emotions and the ways I allow them to affect me have become a large part of who I am… or at least a large part of who I perceive myself to be.
Even as my emotions are intense, I am truly happy with who I am and with the life I am living. I am good. I pursue compassion, serenity, love, and selflessness.
Mentally, I am a strange creature. I describe my mind as a glass of water- and not as a metaphor. When I look into my mind, unclouded and unblemished by worries or reoccurring thoughts, it is literally a transparent glass full to the brim with clear, iceless water. Thoughts constantly fall into the glass, each with a different colour, texture, taste, emotional feel, and scent. For example, in my mind, Sundays have always been a violet-blue colour, with flecks of gold embedded in them. They are soft and fluid… as if they are silk woven from water. Sundays smell like lavender and honey; they are nostalgic, quiet, and somewhat wistful. The song of Sunday is Bad Day by Daniel Powter. Sundays are bittersweet.
Different words, too, each have their own feel to them. The word ‘no’ for example, is a violent red colour that falls like a stone into the glass. When it touches the water, steam rises because it is so hot. ‘No’ tastes like butter and dirt. To give another example, the word ‘remembrance’ falls silently through the water – neither liquid nor gas- and has a green-grey colouring. It feels thin and slimy yet somehow is intangible, and it smells like seaweed.
However, in my day-to-day life, I never think about the individual words; my mind is like Alice in Wonderland at times because I think with such rapidity that the glass can be full of a thousand mismatched words, phrases, and thoughts all at the same time. When this happens, which is most of the time, my world becomes a conglomerate, heterogeneous fusion of every colour, texture, shape, scent, and taste known to man, all coalesced into a mass chaos of fluids.
Sometimes the glass overflows. This happens if too many things plunge into the water with too much force, all of it happening too suddenly. My mental faculties will halt and flee because there is a flood and suddenly – physically – I need to get away from the world.
This is why I write. I write because the overflowing water, tainted with a thousand distinct thoughts, is somehow channeled out from my mind, through the pen, and onto the paper where it forms itself into carefully crafted words. I write because sometimes my skin is burned off by the fierce, cutthroat scorching of my emotions, and the only way to quench to the flames is to put pen to paper. I write because it is what I am meant to do.
I write because I must. I write for the same reasons that I sleep and I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.
I am fire in the heart and water in the mind. That is me.
