A Note From Maestro Himself

Dearest Phantom of my Former Self:

You have lied to your public, who were indeed once MY public. I believe you owe them an apology. “Gretchen and I are as thick as theives.” That much is true. But it is a phrase which here means you are the kindredest of souls but you will NEVER cease to have feelings for her. You have not within you the constitution to do it. I know this, because you were once me. I made the same mistake once. I denied my feelings for Gretchen, and boy did I think I was clever. “Look at me, I can move on!” Posh! It is a mistake that finally aided in killing me. But I lived on in spirit through you (you know all of this already). Anyway, so there you are, with your dark brooding ways. Life was good for me, Maestro. But it wasn’t so hot for you, The Phantom. I had apparently gotten over Gretchen ages ago and eventually asked someone out. But that didn’t work out, and I soon came to realize something just wasn’t right. Perhaps I just was not meant to date yet, I dunno. But deep inside me, something was brewing. I had bottled up emotions. I put a cork on them back when I “got over” Gretchen. Well, the pressure built up and my emotions eventually popped. And as everyone knows, that brought my existence to a sudden stop. But since I am immortal, in a way, I went on. Or rather, YOU went on. You exist because my emotions were unstable. An unstable being becomes a phantom, for he is torn between different planes of existence. So anyway, you are the very essence of instability – you don’t know what you want. You knew you still liked Gretchen, but you tried to ignore it. Well, pretty soon it became impossible to ignore – you admitted it. And then you denied it! You came right out and said you got over her again, and you told yourself that was true. But deep down inside it wasn’t. You won’t find another girl. I tried it. I masked my feelings with Kristin. Figured if I went out with her I’d finally put the Gretchen issue to rest. That plan worked swimmingly. No other girls come near amounting to Gretchen. But I have learned from my mistakes. Denying myself eventually turned me into you. Granted, I love The Phantom of the Opera. But you my friend are actually The Phantom of the Maestro (another lie of yours) and you are not half the man I was. Society has enough melodramatic people who can’t make up their minds like yourself. What the world needs now is a Hero. And I, Maestro, am just such a hero. You don’t know what you want, well I am making the decision for you! You want Gretchen! Got it? I can’t say I can get her, but I CAN say I know I will try! So keep this in mind, Phantom – Once you get your emotions straightened out, your existence will stabilize and you will revert back to the guy we all know and love. In other words, I’m comin’ back! So until I actually do save the world from YOU, The Phantom…I mean honestly, like you were going to save the world from anything! Anyway…

The Universe Can Wait

– Sincerely, Maestro

P.S. That picture you had on the previous entry was niffed out. I’ve always loved that hat…