Darkness is...

Click the video to listen to this short blog or read along. Don't mind the darkness, the light will come through.

Darkness is a state of mind.

It is the voice in your head telling you false truths.

It is a filter you carry with you; one you must constantly remind yourself isn’t real.

But what is real and what is a filter?

You come into the world with a different beginning than anyone else.

You hear different sounds, different pitches.

The only way you translate these new beginnings are by learning what is real, by someone that may not understand truth themselves.

In a world filled with filters, we all hideaway a darkness similar or not to everyone else. The difference between their darkness and yours is how you present it or manipulate it to benefit yourself.

 

Darkness is a state of mind…

Darkness is what you believe it to be…

Darkness is not all of you…

Darkness is…

 

We can see the shadows creeping, even if we place it in a box in our minds labeled imagination.

We are told our whole lives that the shadows we see are not real, just a trick of the light or a wild imagination.

Do you remember your first false truth?

Was it an imaginary friend?

A person known to be deceased.

Was it a shadow in the corner, shape shifting, waiting for a chance to invade your mind?

The monster under the bed, told to be a white lie to keep the kids in their bed at nights.

Or a mark on your skin as you sleep and dream that you are being pulled from your bed.

What unexplained darkness or shadow was part of your childhood?

Did you leave it behind or did you just hide it behind another filter of life?

Hide Don't Seek

 

    When we were younger hide-n-seek was a fun game. A game that allowed you to see how well you could hide before someone found you. The more you played the more you learned.

                Some of us learned we loved to hide but not to seek, because that is what we were best at. Some of us didn’t like the hiding part because it was too stressful, but we loved to seek because this part, the searching part, was fun, it was a mission.

                Did this game chart a path in our life as we grew, by preparing us to understand if we should hide or if we should seek? Or did you figure out both suited you just fine, following that path would lead you to help and keep some things hidden.

                Are we as children learning life lessons or pieces of ourselves while playing childhood games? If I sit here and breakdown each aspect of those games and life, I could figure it out. But I was never a seeker. I believe I may have liked to hide to an extent but really, I was usually the one that said, “Over there.” And pointed to the one that hid, type of player.

                If I think about the game, I believe it was a sign of trying to stay out of the line of sight and more of a peripheral view type. “Yeah, you can see me but only if I don’t step backwards out of view. As adults we believed hiding and not seeking was the way to go. Today the tides have turned for the younger generation and they tend to seek more than hide. In some ways this is good, in others it’s a, not so cheap, way to escape what is truly wrong. A crutch to keep life how it is by saying, “I’m in therapy. Don’t take anything I do seriously!” In other ways therapy is helping and we have less people self-harming themselves or harming others. This would be the growth we need. Let's change the standards we grew up by: Hide Don’t Seek and start seeking those who may still be hiding and need to be seen. Let’s bring them out of hiding quietly so they know there is help and they are not alone.