The Darker Picture

When you sit down to write something, blank space is very disturbing. It just sits there, waiting to be filled with the tangled mess you call your thoughts. And then, it pierces your consciousness and takes over until the blankness extends to you too. This is why I fail to write more than one post every fortnight.

Life has been a curious mixture of good, bad and ugly this semester. Good, because I've been keeping myself busy with lots of different things, which are superficially useful enough. Bad, because that's taking me away from doing things that I want to do and the places I want to go as a person. Ugly, because that's what I foresee in the weeks ahead...

Change and Reinvention. Twin concepts that have weighed heavily on my mind over the past week. You can't categorise them as uniformly good or uniformly bad. Context is very important. Or is it? As I see it, reinvention is changing your perception of yourself. As I've been memorably told, 'Life is a constant learning process'. You gotta keep exploring yourself. Push the limits. Never be in equilibrium with yourself. That's Reinvention. And that's good.

Everyone has a darker side, waiting to emerge from the shadows, including you. Let it come out. Play with it. Talk to it. Listen to it. It will help you more than a thousand sugary compliments from your naive well-wishers.

If dark it be

I help you see

Then you and me

Will set us free