Darkness, It Does Not Exist

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Hello darkness my old friend...

That's how the song goes. I am reminded of that song whenever I hear the word darkness. When it comes to the word "dark" however, only that bitterly sweet and luscious confectionary comes to mind.

Darkness does not exist, that's what I say. And that's what I believe, darkness is just the absence of something, it's the absence of light. What do you picture when you think of the word darkness? Maybe you picture a pitch black nothingness. If you did, well if there's nothing, nothing is existent right? That's one thing to picture darkness.

Another aspect of life where we relate darkness is the bad things that happened or things that we have done. Some of us may have that what we called colored pasts where maybe, we had run ins with the law, maybe some of us committed some crimes, maybe we had those illicit affairs and all those that could be another face of what we call darkness.

Once there was a man that went out with a girl he don't really know. They met one night and one thing lead to another and they both end up in the same bed. While sharing the intimate moments of bliss, she said "you're safe right?" He nodded in agreement and then he countered with a compliment/question.

"Why are you so good at this?"

She answered amidst moans, "I have a dark past."

He did not pry anymore and just enjoyed the moment. But the curiosity lingered around his mind. What does she mean by that? Why did she say that? What on Earth could she have done to be entitled with such a claim? And what was with that statement that made her more attractive to his eyes?

Wild imaginations began pestering his mind. Maybe she have laid with multiple partners at a time. Maybe she had a lot of practice before. Maybe she have done it for a career. Maybe... the possibilities are endless.

In general we tend to link darkness in crimes. A man lead a dark life when his life is smeared with deaths, murders and other heinous crimes. But as I said, darkness does not exist. It's just the absence of light. In some cases, these darkness where doing crime is the result, it may be due to the lack of control. Impulse control. Scientifically, our prefrontal cortex deals with this impulses. It's where our decision making is concentrated. It is also where the sense of guilt, remorse and compassion reside.

If a person's prefrontal cortex is damaged, all things that a person can do is normal and "righteous". He or she may not have that sense of right or wrong, hence, even in the people that we could call living in the dark side of life, darkness doesn't exist.

Just to throw it out there, even our definitions of right and wrong is non-existent. These are just moral guidelines that us humans came up with to keep an order of some sort. A lion kills a deer, is it right? Is it wrong?

Isn't it just out of instinct? Out of necessity? If you tell me that it is wrong, let me ask you, according to whom? Then what's the right thing the lion could do? Should it find it within him to live alongside the deer forgetting the urge for him to eat?

It's just how nature works. There's no right or wrong, there's just the question of capability. If one's capable of doing a thing, it can be done. If you are able to eat a lion, then it can be done. But what can be done, doesn't necessarily mean that it should be done. And that's why we came up with such concepts as "right or wrong". Of course as a decent thinking human being, I would like to adhere on the concept of right and wrong, even though that I believe that they don't really exist to begin with.

It's just chaotic if none of us adhere to those concepts. Imagine if all of us give in to the urges deep within. If we allowed that little voice inside our heads to control us when it say "do it", "do it". Just how few people would be able to survive. That's some world I wouldn't want to be a part of.

And again, darkness does not exist, literally it is just the absence of light. And if it's figuratively, we just associate darkness with things that we deem "bad", which inherently is also non existent or subjective at the very least.

Hey there!!!

Thank you for visiting this way. This is an article inspired by @JonicaBradley 's prompt of the week, darkness. Been quite busy these past few days, and just glad that I had the time to write this one up.

Again, I appreciate your time and as always,

Cheers!!!


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Darkness is the best way to reach the light sometimes. One cannot be completed without another.

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3 years ago

That's an interesting thought.

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3 years ago

Siempre di en acuerdo que la oscuridad nesecita estar en nosotros, pero de manera equilibrada. No somos seres de luz por completo y nesecitamos un poco de ese contraste para recordarnos que no somos perfectos.

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3 years ago

Good one

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3 years ago

For me darkness is ignorance and lack of education. By the way nicely written 🙂

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3 years ago

ooh quite the academic approach. Nice! :D

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3 years ago

Poor deer. :(

I also agree to it. Darkness is not opposite, but lack of light.

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3 years ago

Hahaha but if the lion was not able to eat? Will you pity him too? Hahaha

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3 years ago

Maybe yes? I mean, all aninals are precious, don't you think? Except those that I am scared of, that's for sure.

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3 years ago

"He or she may not have that sense of right or wrong,"

Funny it led me to a scene...

Man on the cross said, Forgive them Father they do not know what they are doing....

As always, i love your piece and delivery!!

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3 years ago

Wow! That was a powerful scene. I had goosebumps just by reading it.

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3 years ago

darkness means the absence of light. .it could also mean wickedness and evil.. Anything negative can be related to darkness..

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3 years ago

Yeah un nga nangyayari. Kawawa naman si darkness. Wala naman siya ginagawa. Hahaha

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3 years ago

I agreed to you too, saying, "darkness is the absence of light." I sometimes associate dark on evil. I also made an entry for this word.

Anyways, thanks for sharing it.😊

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3 years ago

Ooh nice. Will read it. :)

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3 years ago

I could'nt totally dive in to the deepest wisdom you have in understanding darkness but at the other side I would agree to you when you say dark was is the absence of light and we tend to associate darkness with bad or crime.

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3 years ago

It's okay. I can't really explain it well anyway. :D

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3 years ago

But now you've got me wondering how many deer you've killed. Lol. Good one. I agree darkness is the absence of light. And I dislike that people attach right and wrong to degrees of brightness.

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3 years ago

Hahaha thankfully none. We really don't have much deer going around here in our place. :D

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3 years ago

People, then.

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3 years ago

Oh that.. a lot. But for me, gratefully i'm still at zero . hahha

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3 years ago

"Wheres darkness at the sight of light? It evaporates at the glimpse of light." This is the lyrics of a popular gospel song here in Nigeria.

Darkness doesn't exist where there is light.

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3 years ago

Sounds like a real good song.

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