the truth about hollowsMonday, May 07, 2007
The Hollows in BLEACH fascinates me. Their blood-shot eyes and maniac looks, the hallmarks of a lunatic strike a familiar chord. I have witnessed them and certainly experienced such mindless frenzy before.
Every single one of us have a hollow living inside us, waiting for the right chance to strike at our consciousness, rationality and sanity. The only thing that differs from individual to individual is the strength of our hollow and its frequency of appearance. The strength of the hollow refers to its ability to distort our mind and its degree of control over our actions and thoughts. Its appearance, is often aggravated by the occurrence of certain events that disturb our mind. For instance, those cryptic voices that are whispering in your head could be the work of our own hollow and not the devils (as suggested by certain religious beliefs). This is also a plausible reason for split personality and other similar symptoms of different behaviour.
At a time when our hollow appears, everyone of us would have to make the difficult decision of either suppressing their influence (which is ultimately a heculean task) or risk submitting ourselves to this hollow.
