Everyone Has a Dark Side, Including You
Everyone has a dark side. EVERYONE.
If you are reading this, you have one too.
Perhaps you keep it hidden, carefully concealed, even from yourself. Perhaps you go to great lengths to mask it and only those closest to you see it. Perhaps you know it is there but you are frightened of it and you tell yourself it's not real. Perhaps you face it, acknowledge it, and work on it. Perhaps you feed it and use it to cause harm.
Everyone has one. The biggest lie we were ever told was that it was something natural to us, something we were born with. Dark sides are not born, they are made. They are made in a world which is DESIGNED to create one. Do you see babies and small children with dark sides? What you see are pure, innocent human beings, bundles of light, without malevolence or ill-intention.
It changes once some form of pain is inflicted on them; and this world generates pain with such frequency that it becomes a lifelong battle for people to maintain the same light they had as soon as they came to this world.
Everything about this world has been carefully constructed to ensure a dark side is created within us. It may come in the form of society, where the system is set up to mould us into rigid, heartless individuals. It may come in the form of other people whose dark sides have overpowered them, who inflict abuse of all kinds on others. It may come in the form of political or social leaders who repeatedly abuse their position and betray their people. It may come in the form of the entertainment industry which promotes a narrative that money, fame and glory are the ultimate aim.
This dark world operates to steal individual light from each human being. It is not uncommon for people to go through intense suffering in order to find their way back to the light. This is the soul breaking through. Nor is it uncommon for people never to find their way back.
People can be distracted by the politics, the wars, the social movements, their jobs, the people around them who annoy them, the people on social media who annoy them. They can spend hours and days talking about everything that is wrong with others and the world. It is ALL a DISTRACTION.
A distraction designed to keep us from the one thing we need to focus on which is OURSELVES. A focus which analyses how much darkness has rooted itself in our hearts and how our light has been strangled and oppressed.
Society uses judgement to keep us from confronting our true nature. We have been taught that our dark side is something to be ashamed of and must be kept hidden at all costs, otherwise we run the risk of judgement from other people - people who themselves will not face the truth of what they are.
Can you see beyond the lies and manipulation? The world did not ever want you to be happy, free or full of love. It needs to keep you down to ensure you remain enslaved - if you are enslaved by your own dark side, you are enslaved by the world. But for each individual who breaks free and take the courageous path of confronting themselves, they bring just a little more light into the world, they tip the scales ever so gently, and they help restore humanity to its true state.
Your dark side may always be with you - but it is AWARENESS of it that matters, nor burying it or rejecting it.
