I have a problem with a word.

You know I have a problem. I have a problem with a word called Dark. Darkness. It is sad how this word is abused. Exploited. It is used to describe the time of ignorance. It is used to describe lack of knowledge. And before we know it, we are injected with a fear. A dogma. Of living in darkness. It is shaped as a monster in front of us. Something we should never step into. Just by defining it that way, we are inherently mistaking ourselves and stepping right into Ignorance. 

Darkness is different. It is not Ignorance. Ignorance is when Light exists in the other room. Ignorance is sitting here, complaining about things when Light does exist. 

Darkness is absence of Light. With a potential of being there. Darkness is the tunnel that leads to Light. Ignorance is not walking the tunnel. 

Darkness is potential of Light. Ignorance is denial of Light. 

And dark times don't importantly stem from breakups or separation from materialistic possessions. 

Just like how we choose some battles as consequences of our decisions, similarly, there are some battles that choose us. Battles that take Light away. 

On the canvas of battles that choose us, each moment, we get Light and then we get a tunnel. In each moment, there is a tunnel filled with Darkness. These battles inculcate the feeling of that tunnel. They push us into this tunnel. We know it is dark. Ignorance plagues our journey in this tunnel. Whispering to stand frozen. Whispering to not to walk. Each moment, we choose how to combat the battle. The battle we perhaps did not choose. 

These battles inculcate first a feeling of emptiness, followed by a solution you know is an illusion, and what follows is a journey of realization. The process never ends. 

What is fascinating about this Darkness is - what seems magic today, becomes reality tomorrow. What seems magic tomorrow, becomes reality the day after. 

The only distance between Magic and Reality is the tunnel. The tunnel we choose to walk or stand in.

It doesn't just end. It is like tunnels and battles choose us. Consistently. Constantly. Until it makes us reach where it wants us to take. 

Each tunnel helps us appreciate Darkness. Helps us understand the difference between Darkness and Ignorance. Helps us become more conscious of ourselves. 

You and I. We have a lot inside. According to the Romeo of Psychology - Freud, it is our unconscious. These tunnels, this darkness, it brings a part of our unconscious unto the table of conscious. We consciously choose to battle with our unconscious. 

Until no nightmare remains. Or well, until no nightmare scares us or leaves us feeling Why. 

You know this word, Darkness. I have a problem with the way world describes it. It is not denial of Light, it is the ground in which the battle is played for Light.