Do Not Fear Dark Times

By Evan Sanders


You can't always be positive. In reality if you were positive all of the time, how could people really count on the validity of your character? They couldn't.

Life is incredibly balanced. So to be truly positive you have to experience serious negatives as well. That's simply the way 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 hopeful because I truly am out in this world to help others love profoundly and possibly, just maybe, something I talk about will help someone bring some light into their heart. For years I've been willing to pull a lesson or learning point out of even the worst circumstances to help evoke others. But what I want to share with you is that I am not always positive. Actually I don't ever force myself to be because that only creates inauthenticity.

I have really dark moments and days at certain times. Actually the more I deeply love with everything I have, the more deeply I feel pain, hurt, loss, and everything else that can make your hands shake when it comes around. I feel those things now more than I ever have previously. The liquefying of a cold heart many years ago ago has exposed it to be naked, exposed, and gives it the capacity to feel everything intensely.

So frequently, writing something that's optimistic, is really me fighting as hard as I'm able to to keep a good outlook on life. In reality, some days are a lot harder than others. Some days, I feel just like I'll just barely breath.

Throughout the years, I have learned to express these things through my art and pour myself out through my writing and I really am so blessed to have that. So if you are suffering, just know, I struggle too.

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




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