Bright Lights And Dark Shadows

By Evan Sanders


You can't always be positive. In fact, if you were positive all of the time, how could people truly accept the authenticity of your character? They couldn't.

Life is amazingly balanced. So to be truly positive you have to experience serious negatives as well. That's simply the way that the world works. As Carl Jung once said, "The brighter the light the darker the shadow." I think that really applies here as well.

In my life, I try and keep my writing pretty positive and optimistic because I'm out in this world to help a lot of people love deeply and maybe, just maybe, something I talk about will help someone bring some light into their heart. For years I've been ready to pull a lesson or learning point out of even the worst situations to help provoke thought in others. But what I want to share with you is that I am not necessarily positive. In reality I don't ever force myself to be because that only creates inauthenticity.

I have really dark moments and days at times. Actually the greater I love with everything I have, the more profoundly I feel pain, hurt, loss, and everything else that can make your hands tremble when it comes around. I feel those things now more than I ever have before. The melting of a cold heart all those years ago has exposed it to be exposed, vulnerable, and gives it the capacity to feel everything intensely.

So often, writing something that's hopeful, is actually me fighting as tough as I will to keep a positive perspective on life. In truth, some days are a lot tougher than others. Some days, I feel like I can hardly breath.

Throughout the years, I have learned to express these things through my art and pour myself out through my writing and I am so fortunate to have that. So if you're struggling, just know, I struggle as well.

I struggle hard. And with that, I love hard.




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