GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
They're insane, you know.
Babies.
SYDNEY BARRETT,
A Spirit from The Future :
All of them?
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
The way their brain works.
They have no logic.
If they see something, it exists, and then when it's gone —
SYDNEY BARRETT,
A Spirit from The Future :
You know, it's not crazy babies that worry me.
It's The Men They Become.
Like a Fire, falling in love with a Fire.
We try to smother them, put them out, but they just burn us up.
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
It bothers you, because you think you matter.
That people matter.
SYDNEY BARRETT,
A Spirit from The Future :
What's the point of living if not?
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
Have you ever seen a mass grave? All people, with names, with families now just a pile.
What's the meaning of that?
SYDNEY BARRETT,
A Spirit from The Future :
But you're Here.
You have a child.
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
All animals fight to live.
Whether they want to or not.
“Some time into our relationship it occurred to me that you have the family you are born with and the family you consciously appoint.
Meredith became an appointed mother. I don’t mean for this to diminish the vital role of my own mother, nor do I mean to say that I have depended on Meredith to the enormous degree that the word ‘mother’ suggests.
It is that on some biochemical or philosophical level I recognized her as a portal for maternal nurture of a type that I required as an adult.
A mentor is a type of hero and a hero is a symbol, much of the work they do for you is in effect done by you, yourself, in your own mind.
Take the example of Meredith and the revealing question she asked in this instance. She revealed to me that I was living dishonestly and demonstrated, by her own being, that there was an alternative.
Now I don’t need to set up camp at the foot of her bed or be there at the breakfast table sobbing, while she feeds her actual family, to receive the benefits of her wisdom. I just need to be open to education, willing to change. In this way we author our reality.
I determined to make Meredith a ‘mother’. I decided to accept her nurture.”
Excerpt From
Mentors
by Russell Brand
SYDNEY BARRETT :
So, is he a good baby? David?
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
He, uh He cries a lot, like he knows something.
SYDNEY BARRETT,
A Spirit from The Future :
What could he know?
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
Me.
SYDNEY BARRETT :
People talk about having a second childhood.
What they mean is they feel young again.
But I've had two actual childhoods.
Meaning I was a baby twice.
I grew up Twice.
The first time I ran,
and then I walked.
This time I crawled,
I walked,
I felt Safe.
That's all he wants — To feel Safe.
That's all he wants — To feel Safe.
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
My grandmother had The Sickness.
She was, uh — [Speaks Romany]
Spells, Moods, she Spoke in Tongues.
I remember her eyes.
Miserable and Giddy, like a Happy Death.
My mother was 16 when The Sickness hit her.
In the witching hour, she woke up laughing.
Didn't stop for 14 days.
SYDNEY BARRETT :
You're talking about Mental Illness.
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
Such a clinical name for something so raw.
Like an animal with its Heart on The Outside.
SYDNEY BARRETT :
It's so odd.
I never thought of that.
It's hereditary, What's Wrong with Him.
Why He's Like This.
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
Who?
SYDNEY BARRETT :
Listen to me.
This baby, this little baby.
You HAVE to love him.
Okay? Like his life depends on it.
Like The World will end if you don't.
Hold him and Love him.
Don't let The Monsters in.
Because when he's grown, it will be too late.
Hey, look at me.
We all have our role to play in This War we're fighting,
Good against Evil.
There is no Good stronger than Mother's Love.
Do you understand?
GABRIELLE HALLER,
Mother of LEGION :
I think so.
Are you really here?
SYDNEY BARRETT :
No.
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