Another day.
The warm sunlight that sneakily makes its way into my bedroom every day is refreshing.
It’s important for our survival and it makes me feel alive.
But there’s something magical about the darkness.
The transformation from day to night in itself is such a mystical thing to see.
When it’s all dark, I see the twinkling stars,
The moon, sometimes full while sometimes crescent,
The shadows cast by the giant trees,
The moonlit pathways,
The sleep we slid into smoothly traveling into a completely unknown world where you see things you have never seen, meet people you never saw in reality, experience a complete different emotion, DREAMS.
And most of all, I’m surprised how different our minds work at nights from days.
At night, although it’s dark, it is comforting.
Its soft-touch melts away all the day stress.
Sometimes it might be terrifying but strangely enough, I like how it rests my eyes, body, and mind.
It’s like a reward for all the work I did in the day.
And I may not be able to see everything in darkness but in darkness, I can see within me.
I see with my mind-eye.
Into the past, present, and the future.
Isn’t that such a magical thing to say?!
I appreciate the perspective it gives us, the solace it bestows, the magic it shows.
There’s very few that see what a wonder Darkness is.
If there’s only light, there will be no balance.
If there’s light, there has to be darkness,
If there is happiness, there has to be sadness,
If there’s youth, there has to be senility,
If there is a wonder, there will be a disaster, too.
That’s how I know to be grateful for one while to be respectful about the other.
When asked which one they prefer, light or darkness, I know most people would be inclined to choose light.
But I came to understand I kind of appreciate both light and darkness.
Because both light and darkness are parts of me.
One shows the world to me and vice-versa, and the other lets me look into the world within myself, where only I can enter.
Every night, before I snooze off, the darkness makes me recall everything that happened in the day,
It shows me the truth,
Where I was wrong and where I was right,
What made me happy and what gave me pain,
Who motivated me to work hard for another day and who looked down on me,
Reasons for my immediate success and late-success.
THE REAL TRUTH.
And also I’m proud of myself for not shutting out those thoughts, I let them flow.
Like water.
At the end of those late night musings, it imparted a very important lesson in me.
Every night, a new lesson.
Every time I let the darkness guide me, I was taken to a wiser place.
And I swear, I learned most of my precious lessons during these late night musings.
So, Darkness is not all bad.
Is it?
Some might say it’s all science, the light and dark, stars and moon, dreams and mind, etc.
But I’d like to take it with a grain of salt and believe it’s something beyond science.
Until next time,
Lots of LOVE,
Nikki.
(Penname: Sarvani)