Dropping Dark
Rethinking how the word is used
I’ve been trying to stop using dark to describe things, energies, persons who are bad or depressing as it is commonly used. I haven’t yet mentioned it in speech but it has bothered me for a while now. When we think of dark energy, dark emotions, dark events and so on , we think of pain. We think of evil. We think of this awfulness that needs to be avoided.
My aversion to dark being used to describe is that I can see too many ways where that same energy is transferred to people. In other words , dark people would or could be construed as synonymous with bad people, evil people, pain inducing people.
Maybe I give the word too much power. Maybe I have over thought this too much. Am I tripping? The opposite of course is light. So light energy, light emotions, light events. All of those are desirable, good, fun, the standards we should all seek. We want to be light. We want to be lighthearted and have light encounters that don’t blemish or bruise. We want to step into the light and seek the light. And lest we forget the dominance in Judeo Christian and other faiths as well, the dominance of light as this all knowing thing we should seek. Light matters. Light illuminates. We BREATHE BETTER LIGHTTTTT. And by these same metrics, we deify light people. Light people become the right people which becomes the white people. The light, right, white…
