Darkness Part 1

I am writing this as a reflection to a short essay a dear friend of mine wrote. This idea of darkness is one that is so core to our existence. Darkness:the absence of light. On a more metaphorical level, darkness is the absence of certainty of our environment and an exposition of our vulnerability.

Perhaps it is in darkness we truly realize the core of our very existence: we are dependent beings. It is in darkness we are stripped of vision and thrust into uncertainty. For those of us who may argue that how they may certain in life and every moment has always been an anticipated one. They are always seeing things in a certain light and perhaps claim ignorantly that they will always know what is happening based on their intellect and experience. Yet, I still argue how one can account for the rest of the world who have not experienced this certainty? Would it not be true if we could always be in control and certain in our destiny, then all we know as pain and suffering would then disappear? I think the very existence of the thing we know as darkness, reflects that very certain idea of uncertainty: it reminds us of our condition as dependant beings.

As much as we are uncertain in darkness, we are also certain that in darkness, the more of it there is, the more safe we can feel and perhaps even somewhat blissful in our ignorance. In the presence of minimal light however, we are thrown into uncertainty. Perhaps in our lives, we always have some sort of light and that we do know. Perhaps it is innate inside of us that lets us differentiate this dark and light. It scares us because this light, although minimal, creates silhouettes of things in our lives into horrible monsters when in fact, only , in light that these things reveal themselves to be less horrible. This is where we retreat further into the darkness if we do not know where to intensify this light. Ironic we will feel safe in this darkness.

I will continue this thought later on.