Light – Risinghero

We often view that darkness as a force that will cause us harm, and force us to see things about ourselves that we hope not to see. That is why we perceive darkness as evil and often perceived as a plague to the minds as a form of negativity with unwanted feelings about us. This can be frustrating at times because it forces us to work on ourselves, but it allows us to grow as individuals with some form of vulnerability. One must understand that embracing one’s dark half is embracing a part of one’s true self, though one will not like it, nevertheless one must accept as indisputable truth of their self. In order to journey on towards the light forged by continuous hard work and self-discovery.

For example, I went through a lot of hardships within education, however that hardship has made me who I am today. I have also learnt to use my darkness as a teacher in helping me to see understand my significance and purpose in this expansive earth. My dark half and the experiences have also taught me as to how I can evolve from my darkness into a brighter yet truthful being. At the end of the day, darkness is how we perceive and internalize the feelings that we feel about our truths. In turn, darkness is the dirt that seeks for us to be non-complacent and to be in continuous evolution. From the earlier example, I described how I had to overcome my challenge in education and how that has made me who I am today. During that time in my life, I was in a tough situation, which forced me to venture into unknown experiences, which, looking back to that hardship, I feel grateful. This experience has armed me with the realization that I am capable of anything only if I will it. And now I see myself as the writer of my own life not predestined by anyone else. Through this experience, I acquired the trait of resilience that is strong enough to feel calm amidst any crisis. This is how darkness has taught me to value myself, regardless of how other people see me. As Eddie Pinero says, “No one knows what key you hold, only you know it, and they will find out in time just ten steps behind you”. The battle with darkness and against it has taught me life’s many lessons that are easily missed, like recognizing that having an inner darkness is essential for growing into a being that recognizes that every struggle that one ever faces is against themselves rather than with other people. War comes in everyone’s life no matter how pure, innocent, or even how evil, and malicious one is. In order to gain access to the path to light, one is challenged by darkness.

I know you may be thinking where I am going with this topic. About all this “darkness and light mumbo jumbo”, but what I am trying to convey is that one should see darkness as a challenge and as a choice – you either run away from it, or you face it. Only when a person whose inner darkness gets strong mentally and spiritually, can they acquire insight into their heart’s desires. Since we are on this topic, I want to tell you about a show that I watched this summer, which is called Cloak and Dagger. This show had a very interesting concept of two teenagers who acquired the power to control light and dark, which entailed that one kid who had acquired the power of light had the ability to peer into people’s hopes and dreams. The counterpart had the power of darkness had the power to peer into people’s fears and their secrets that they wished to hide from other people. This show gives a unique insight into how we as humans try to look positive from the outside, while from the inside negativity and fears are running amuck in our mind and heart, thus causing one to be easily faltered in one’s goal’s an endeavour.

For example, some people believe that they live in the present, however, though that may be their perspective, it may not be true no matter how much they say they live in the present moment. That outlook can be a goal, as it takes a lot of time to acquire the positive energy to maintain it. But, that can only happen if one has faced their demons and won, thus making their mind and spirit strong enough to maintain the positive process. I believe that light is beautiful, but its beauty is often shrouded in darkness and sometimes one must be astonished to the beauty of the dark, because that is how life is designed for us humans here and now. But, how we internalize the beauty and ugliness is how we claw to pick apart the shadow and once again bring back the light that we constantly seek.

Lastly, I want to conclude this blog by pointing out that darkness is in everybody’s life, but how we learn to face the dark and embrace through overcoming challenges and learning from it constantly builds the fortitude and the resilience needed to rise to walk into the light.

I now ask you, is darkness a friend, or a foe? Because regardless of how one perceives it, at the end of the day, that is the only way to walk into the light.