Do We Need The Dark To See Better?
Think about this situation: you are walking in a very bright place and someone is approaching you but you are unable to recognize them because the sun, with its strength and brilliance, blinds you. It is possible that at this time, you are hiding the sun to provide shade. You needed a moment of darkness then. It is from this moment that you can recognize the person approaching. You know if it was a friend, or a stranger asking you for directions, or someone who mistook you for someone else.
When you figured out who it was, you were able to choose whether you were going to greet her with a hug, kindly orient her, or just shed light on her confusion and then continue on your way without looking back.
Seeing better allows us to choose more wisely
Imagine a world in which there is only light, if you have never experienced darkness, how could you understand and appreciate light? It is the contrast between light and dark that leads to deeper knowledge. We have to face a world full of dualities: above and below, hot and cold, kind and mean.
Pain allows us to better appreciate joy. The chaos of Earth increases our appreciation for peace. The hatred that we can find deepens our understanding of love. For this, the difficulties of life are a special and powerful means of creating feelings that are vital for our self-knowledge.
The more nuances we know, the more we can decide wisely. Thus, darkness is an opportunity for reflection, in order to see inside more than to see outside. Life is a journey from the head to the heart. The difficulties of our life make this journey easier for us, to open our hearts in this way, to be able to recognize them and better value them. Clearly, darkness gives us the ability to self-discover and be consistent with what is happening in our inner world.
The fable of music
Imagine coming from a place where music resonates more beautiful than any that has ever been created. It’s lovely, dazzling music. You’ve always listened to her, your whole life. You have never been away and had never been in contact with any other music either. One day you realize that as you have always heard it, you have never really listened to it. In fact, you never valued her because you never knew anything else. For this reason, you decide that you would like to be able to promote this music.
You decide to do it through a challenge that grants you access to a great reward. It occurs to you that you could get a really deep knowledge if you were in a place where the music of your home would not resonate, and once there you tried to compose it again, but only after forgetting the music. echo of its resonance. The experience of memorizing and recomposing the extraordinary symphony of your home would produce a better knowledge of the greatness of this piece.
You go to this place. There, you listen to music which, since you have no memory, seems to you to be the only one that you have always heard. Some songs are adorable, but others strike your hearing with their dissonance. These unpleasant tones give birth to in you the desire and finally the following resolution: to create an original music (for which this obscurity has proved to be very necessary).
Realize
You quickly start to write your own compositions. At first you are distracted by the strident music of this new place. In contrast, over time your musical creations become more beautiful as you move away from external noise and listen to the melodies of your heart. Finally, you compose a masterpiece, and when you finish it, you remember something: the masterpiece you composed is actually the same music that resounded in your home.
From this memory, another is triggered: you are this music. It is not something that you have heard outside of yourself; the music is for you, and you are the music. By “creating yourself” in a new place, you come to know yourself in a way that would not have been possible if you had not taken the risk of leaving known boundaries. You know for a fact that if you hadn’t been through this darkness, you wouldn’t have been able to truly value the wonderful music around you.
Thus, the difficulties of life exist so that we can know who we are before we remember who we really are. In fact, we explore jarring sounds and moments of darkness before re-creating our home symphonies. We need the darkness to see better. We need this darkness to be able to better choose the direction and value the light.
Our thoughts Before looking to share your life with someone, it is essential that you love yourself and shine personally first.
