From the mind of critic: “If it’s darkest before the dawn, can we prepare ourselves so the darkest point isn’t quite as dark? Do we take as much light as we can into our soul, so we can illuminate through the dark? Do we fail to act, because although we have previous knowledge, we figure what can we do? Is this just one more way we as humans try to make sense of a randomly chaotic world, where we can prepare and improve our odds of success, but know traveling from one stumbling block to the next, can’t be avoided no matter the heroic action, or perfectly designed metaphor? We all know the dark and light cycle takes place in the physical world, by the unyielding transition from day to night. However, this cycle also takes place within us, by our unwieldy transition from sad to happy. Now there is something to be said for balance, how one side couldn’t exist without the other because it’s definition would disappear. This balance keeps us from sliding too far left or right, but can still favor one side over the other. This is where we can make our light lighter, but can also make our dark darker. True, our choices determine which side we lean to, but we can always adjust. Once we realize it’s only darkest before the dawn, when we expect the dawn to completely wash away the dark, we’ll see inaction leaves us at the chaotic whim of the universe, but conscious action makes our brights brighter, by believing the dark can never be fully extinguished, but can be shrunk and made so uninfluential it’s relegated to crazy street preacher status. We can’t influence the existence of light and dark, we can only turn up and down their influence on us. Dark only wins if we give up, because we forgot how much light we really have. The world only seems chaotic, when we fail to consciously choose our path. We are the light at the end of the tunnel, when we remember to enter the tunnel with a lantern.”
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