You weren't put here to live in the shadows of life.

To exist beyond the sun's grasp, to stay on the outside, looking in.

No, you weren't put here to live in the shadows of life.

It's important to remember the difference between now and forever, the distinction between today and tomorrow,

because from time to time, they look deceptively similar.

Especially when we inevitably find ourselves in the darkest of times.

When despite our best efforts, our world is reduced to shadows, void of hope.

When tomorrow and today have merged into one endless entity,

it always seems to be in these times.

That we forget that right now is just a moment.

Not an assigned permanent,

but a bridge to something great.

As Victor Frankl says, if there is meaning in life at all,

then there must be meaning in suffering.

We all suffer. We all hurt. we all go through periods of time where we can't see or hear or feel anything beyond the darkness we find ourselves in, but it's there. Darkness cannot be defined without light.

It's in the definition.

Darkness is a partial or total absence of light.

They need each other, darkness and light.

The one thing that can bring darkness to its knees is out there, everywhere, all around it.

And if there was ever a reason to be hopeful, enthusiastic, if there's ever a reason to believe,

it's that a new life is always a light switch away. It's that darkness is as temporary as the day.

And the antidote requires only that you believe it to be true.

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