WARNING: Spoilers for series Severance are coming in the text below! Go away if you do not want to view anything related to the series Severance. And for sure, go away if you are not interested in Severance, since you will not understand a thing.

Who are you?

That was the starting line of Severance, the Apple TV series that has been so popular lately. The series deals with a small group of employees who have chosen (?) to undergo the procedure of severance and separate their work memories with the memories they have outside work.

This separation results in some very interesting effects. When you leave work you immediately forget everything regarding work. Likewise, when you arrive at work you forget everything regarding your outside life (and your 'outie' self). That essentially results in the creation of two persons: the 'innie' person and the 'outie' person. Both share the same body, but different memories and, thus, different personalities altogether.

Who are you?

Helly R. fails to answer that seemingly simple question when she wakes up at Lumon facilities. The reason? Simply put, she was just 'born'. No memories in her new life at Lumon workspace had been formed, so at the time of the question she was like a blank paper. Empty and full of potential. And rage as it came up at the end.

And so her life begun.

Many people appeared into that life, with Mark S. being the most important one. The new department head who managed to show empathy towards the new member of the team soon conquered her heart. Does it matter that he had increased chances with the competition being so low? No. Such details are inconsequential when it comes to love. Love was reciprocal and finally united Mark S and Helly R into a couple defining the fate of Lumon itself.

Soon the team of Data Refiners (Dylan G, Inving B along with Mark S and Helly R) start their revolution. Step by step they manage to get out of Lumon, even if it was for some minutes only. And out there they discover who they are.

But is it them?

Who are you?

Are you defined by your memories? Or by something else? If you change memories, do you become a different person? If fate brings you to marry a girl named Gemma or to love a girl named Helly, are you not the same person in both cases? Both the "No" and the "Yes" answer are full of complications.

Dylan G was cool. As cool as f**k as he would say. His outie could not even stir passion in his own wife . Irving on the other hand seemed to be searching for answers about Lumon in his 'outie' life while in his 'innie' life he was more of an obedient employee always following compliance book.

Until love stroke again.

And through loss, Irving wished nothing more than to burn the place to the ground. That was more like the outie Irving who listened to Motörhead while painting black paintings. The two personalities seemed to share something in common, something that needed a spark to be ignited. The core that the two Irvings shared was there, lurking in the dark corridor until something released it. Dylan George, Dylan G's outie, started to show some nerve when he denied his innie's request to resign (and 'die', due to love), mainly because he acknowledged that he liked that a version of himself that was so cool. He essentially looked up to his innie, an earlier version of himself that his wife fell in love with.

The components are beginning to gradually appear.

That thing that makes us who we are.

Love.

And conflict. A spark to make things reach their end.

Clearing the path towards the only thing that we can know.

Our Self.

Regardless of what happens, the fact that Mark S chose Helly R remains and defines him. He chose to risk dying than to simply escape and have his other self. He has been living for just two years and his life is his own to defend. And this life contains Helly, not Gemma. No one can understand that, not even himself. And he doesn't care.

Perhaps at the end this is what our self truly is.

What we chose to be.

Our past memories and the options we make as we live.

I would personally prefer the series to end right here and now. With the idea that all innies will seize to exist. And ending with no hope, no resolution. Just filled with death. Like life itself. But what a life. Full of love and laughter. A life coveted as F**K as Dylan would say.

Isn't that what we all do in real life? (What is real?)

Making choices. Having memories. Forgetting things.

Every day we are who we are based on those things.

Not caring about out other selves. Selves that used to exist when we were young. When we studied hard, going out with friends we no longer have. Selves that were so different than us. Before we had kids, when we were babies without any memories, when we were meeting our first love. We have changed so much and yet we believe that what we live now is who we 'are'.

Do we care about re-integrating with our other selves? Bringing back memories from the dark corridors of unconscious that perhaps make us feel bad? Do we care about saving our self from the pain? Are we brave enough to bring this all back in hope that we might remember something? If you now feel bad, do you dare remember what you felt before that? If you are so happy, isn't it cowardness to forget about the things that made you cry yesterday?

We all watch Severance and we judge.

But can we look at our own past?

Of our self before to-day or yesterday?

Can we integrate them all into One that will answer who we truly are?

Not what we experience now.

Not our memories from yesterday.

But something more.

Something less.

A little speck in the sky.

Darkness.

Light.

Something unspoken.

That only thing that we know.

And can never explain. (As all important things by the way...)

That little thing deep inside our heart.

That makes us so certain.

To answer to anyone asking.

(Who are you?)

I am Me!

Ah-Dylan G?

F**k you Mr. Milchick!