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Psychomachia

Psychomachia is a fancy word that means a fight between good and bad things that happen inside your head.

Imagine your head is a castle, and there are two armies fighting inside. One army consists of all the good things like happiness, bravery, honesty, kindness, and love. The other army consists of all the bad things like sadness, fear, anger, dishonesty, cruelty and hate.

You see, these two armies are fighting all the time inside your head, and you have to decide which side you should take. You have to choose whether you want to be a good person or a bad person, just like choosing which team to root for in a sports match.

So, it's like a battle, and you are the commander of your team. You have to make sure you listen to the good army and not the bad one, so you can be happy and make others happy too.

In short, psychomachia is a fight that happens inside your head between good and bad things where you have to choose which side you want to be on to be happy and make others happy too.