Do we need darkness to see better?

Think about this situation: you are walking through a brightly lit place and someone approaches you, but you cannot recognize them. because the sun with its strength and its brightness blinds you. It is possible that at that moment you blocked the sun and created shade. You needed a moment of darkness. And that’s when you recognized it. You were able to discern if he was a friend, or he was a stranger asking for directions. Or even someone who had confused you.

When you knew who n was you already able to choose If you greeted him with a hug, kindly guided him or simply clarified his confusion and continued on your way without looking back.

Seeing better allows us to choose more wisely

Imagine a world where there is only light. If you have never experienced darkness, how could you understand and appreciate the light? It is the contrast between light and darkness that leads to deeper knowledge. We are in a world of dualities: up and down, hot and cold, good and bad.

Pain allows us to better appreciate joy. The chaos of the Earth increases our appreciation of peace. The hate we may encounter deepens our understanding of love. For this reason, Life’s difficulties are an especially powerful means of creating feelings vital to our self-knowledge.

The more nuances we know, the more wisely we can decide. So, Darkness is an opportunity for reflection, more than to see outside, to see inside. Life is a journey that goes from the head to the heart. The difficulties of our lives make this journey easier for us, to open our hearts and thus be able to know and value them better. In short, darkness gives us the possibility of self-discovery and being coherent with what is happening in our inner world.

The fable of music

Imagine that you come from a place where the most beautiful music that was ever created sounds. It is captivating, dazzling music. You have always heard it, throughout your life. It has never been absent nor has other music been present. One day you realize that, since you’ve always heard it, you’ve never really heard it. That is to say, you have never valued it because you have not known anything else. Therefore, you decide that you would like to be able to rate this music.

You decide to do it in a challenging way that can give you access to a great reward. Does it occur to you that you could gain some really deep knowledge If you went to a place where your home music didn’t play, and once there you tried to recreate it, but only after the echo of what it sounded like had faded.. The experience of remembering, and then composing, the extraordinary symphony of your home would produce the best knowledge of its greatness.

You go to that place. There you hear music that, lacking memory, you believe is the only one you have always heard. Some songs are adorable, but others pound your ears with their dissonances. These unpleasant tones foster desire within you and, eventually, resolution: create original music (for which this darkness has been very necessary).

The realization

Soon you start writing your own compositions. At first, you are distracted by the loud music of this new place. However, Over time, as you separate yourself from external noise and listen to the melodies of your heart, your musical creations become more beautiful. Finally you compose a masterpiece, and when you finish it you remember something: the masterpiece you have written is the same music that played in your home.

And this memory triggers another: you are that music. It’s not something you heard outside of yourself; the music is you, and you are the music. And by “creating” yourself in a new place, you get to know yourself in a way that would not have been possible if you had not ventured outside known boundaries. You know that, if you had not experienced this darkness, you would not have been able to truly appreciate the wonderful music that surrounds you.

Thus, the difficulties of life exist so that we can experience who we are not, before remembering who we really are. That is, we explore discordant sounds and moments of darkness before recreating the symphonies of our home. We need darkness to see better. We need that darkness to be able to better choose our course and value the light.

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