Darkness is nothing but absence of light!

Hello my friends!

I know many people, and seen many of them depressed at many moments of their life. These days we can see so many people's lives almost destroyed due to shear depression in which they have caught themselves due to some or the other reason. Recent events in a friend's life urged me to share this here, on my desiccator. I know I am not a psychiatrist who could treat depression, but well, I am philosophical enough to light a candle of hope. You can say, I am just trying to give a little strength to the person who reads this. May not be that helpful, but don't you think, something is better than nothing?

I would like to give you all a real life example. I have a friend on some social networking website. I won't disclose any name, etc. Still would like to point out what I came to know of from that friend. Now this friend of mine, lets call 'em "X" and their another friend by "Y". Now "Y" too is a friend of "X"(but not mine) on that networking site. "Y" had no real friends, all "Y" had were some friends, online. Partner of this "Y" was killed in front of their eyes. The killer was given enough punishment for the crime, though it was not enough to add some life in "Y". "X" was one of the best friends "Y" had. Now some more sad happenings in the life of "Y" pursued "Y" to abandon their account on the website. Now "X" was quite worried. I was told about the situation of "Y". A few days later though "Y" was out of all the depression, the reason wasn't known.

Why I mentioned that example is not that it taught us to fight with adversities, it teaches us that somewhere in the world there is somebody who does think of your goodwill. So never think you are alone. Though I myself don't think much in this fashion(DON'T LAUGH!! :P ). I always think the things to be such that there's nobody who would help us, we have to fight alone. Though that's a different thing. Let's not intermix things. I was stating the above example to make all of you understand a simple fact that if happiness doesn't stays forever, nor does the sadness! Did you get my point? You guys must've heard of a popular quote that says, "The moments before the sunrise, are the darkest!" I don't say that wake up in the morning and test the thing literally, but in figurative or metaphoric way, yes, it's quite right.

And the one that I mentioned as the topic of my post is, "Darkness is nothing but the absence of light". Now let's analyse this line, literally first. If there is a room, where there is no light, we say that the room is dark. But when we bring in a candle, the darkness is gone. Even if the candle glows feeble, in the corner of the room. But well, the room can no longer be called "Dark". And as soon as we blow off the candle, the room is dark again! Now what does that mean? Howsoever dark it is, but a single ray of light kills this Darkness. Now what does this further implies? Yes! Darkness means absence of light, not killer of light. Darkness can never blow off the candle or eat it's light.

Now let's come to metaphoric meaning! Do I need to explain it? Isn't it quite clear by the literal meaning alone? Well, a single ray of happiness can kill the darkness of the sadness. Now from where does this ray of happiness enters our life? From friends? From loved ones? From enemies? From whom? Well, the answer is ourselves! This ray of happiness enters our life only when we believe in ourselves, and we can hope of good, or bright future. All it takes is strength. "When you are hardest hit, is the time when you must NOT quit."

Why do these adversities enter our life? Only because of the karma? Well there is another reason. I call it "Training". The world as we all know, is not that merciful as it may appear. But is rather a bit too harsh and cruel. These adversities and the problems teach us to fight with them. They make us tough. They make us know of our hidden talents and strengths. You may not be able to run at your fastest speed when you are running a race, but when a dog chases you, your speed increases multiple times!

The person "Y" in the above stated situation may have came out depression all because "Y" was able to light their candle of hope. Everyone has this strength to fight adversities. So instead of crying when they come in your way of life, feeling depressed, or similar things, challenge them. Ask them to try their level best, and teach them a lesson that they are scared of entering your life again. Simple, and difficult, both. It all depends on your realisation.

So I would say it again, don't you think that failure has eaten you. It has not destroyed your happiness. Your happiness needs to be sparked again. All you need is belief, that is self-belief. Believe in yourself, try to remain indifferent to the consequences. Give your best effort, even if you have almost lost, but never give up. When you give up, the candle of hope is not just blown off, it's actually crushed. So why destroy your happiness on your own? believe in yourself, believe in god, give your best, and always keep smiling, and all you'll see would be Happiness, Happiness, and Happiness all around, and thus success! And don't get shattered by failure, it has just came to teach you something good, so that your next success is far more better than any of the previous ones!

Hope my little effort helps you all get out any such situation, if you come across, or help your friends out! Thanks for reading, Good Day! ^_^