How To Know If You Have A Gothic Side
And how this can help you find balance
When people ask me what I mean when I say we all have a Gothic side, I always tell them to think about their relationship with fear, horror films, death, and all those life things that make them uncomfortable.
Gothic doesn’t just refer to a type of aesthetics. It is also a way to perceive the world. Some people run away from everything that creates uncertainty and others are drawn to it unavoidably. And this is because, I think, uncertainty triggers curiosity toward things such as the unknown, death, and the meaning of our existence.
Let’s put it this way: if people were not curious enough we wouldn’t have doctors, engineers, or people working on ways to improve education.
The Gothic binomials
There’s no light without darkness, no day without night, no happy without sad, no positive without negative…
Despite some disagreements, if opposites didn’t exist, we would find it very difficult to compare things and therefore to figure out what resonates more with us and to have where to choose from. Maybe we would all live in an unconscious state of mind.
Stories wouldn’t be interesting if we were not presented with the hero’s evil opposite. Can you imagine…
