Could I Become Hades?

The problem with being in hell is that sometimes it all gets to you.

I don’t want to go up above but being down here hurts so much sometimes that I don’t want to be here either.

Could I reign in hell without Hades? Maybe that’s what I really want…. He hurts me, he’s arrogant, and he thinks he’s always right all the time.

But then there’s the other question. If I reigned in Hell without Hades, would I become Hades? Would I become the way he is? Someone once said something—it’s a cliché by now—that power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely….

Here in Hell, Hades represents absolute power—the only threat possibly to his power—to his absolute power—maybe…maybe is me.

Could I become Hades? Do we become what we fear? This is really heavy. No wonder I would rather be shopping.

I just don’t want to deal with all of these sorts of things. They’re too much.

Maybe it’s good that my six months down here are nearly up. Maybe six months with my mother would be good for me….