a light in the dark

Well my friend just texted me and she is having the worst day ever, the most impossibly horrendous day possible. So i decided to write this post in honor of her.

Ok, so everyone knows about *yin and yang right? If not don't worry I'm about to explain, if you do just listen anyway. Maybe you know about it, but have you ever really thought about it? Probably not, i mean who really does. But back to the point, yin and yang are the Chinese representations of opposites. Some of you are probably sitting there with a dumb look on your face and the words say what in your minds. I'm talking about opposites like black and white, good and evil, so on and so forth, but yin and yang go even deeper then that.

What is the simplest representation of opposites? Good and evil, but let's think for a second is anything in this world well and truly good or evil? The answer....HELL NO. Growing up everyone from your parents to your teachers tell you this is this and that is that. As you grow older you learn the truth. That there are times when this is that and that is this; when there is no black or white... just varying shades of grey. Its the same for good and evil. In my opinion there is no such thing pure evil or even pure good. All that exists are things that are more evil or more good. the yin yang symbol represents this very well. The white side is like a warning. it seems to say be careful because even in the purest seeming thing there is some evil, whether it be in the intentions or in the act. On the other hand the black side is to serve as a reminder that even in your darkest time there is a little bit of light.

So try and remember when you are having the crappiest day you can imagine, and you can't see any light at all in the world, that somewhere in this wide wide world there is someone having a worse day, week, month, year then you. True this a cliched saying that you probably got told countless times through out your childhood, but it works. So use this old, worn out cliched saying as your light in the unrelenting darkness......and tell your bad day to piss off!




*Yin and yang are symbolised as a circle that is half white and half black with a dot of black in the white and vice versa.