The Dark Side

If you were lucky enough to grow up when Star Wars was big, you might remember drinking ginger ale and eating popcorn while watching one of the best movies ever. The problem with Star Wars though, is that there are only two sides.

Life, as it turns out, is much more complicated than that. It's not Deathstar vs. Jedi. It's not black and white, good and bad, dark and light. As it turns out, most of us have a dark side. Stuart called me yesterday (I still (heart) him), he knew me when I was dark. My new boss, Jersey, calls me "Sunshine". Both of them know the truth.

Like the Universe, most of us are made up of both elements. The darkness and the sunlight. Try as we may, to be happy and upbeat and wonderful all the time, that's impossible. We can pretend the unpretty places don't exist, and never show them to anyone. But...diamonds come from coal, don't they?

So my current line of thought on this is maybe we should embrace the darkness, after all, it's part of who we are, isn't it? Accepting and embracing the dark side, means we are even more at peace in the sunlight. We're not ignoring or pretending the other side of life doesn't exist.

The real challenge here is to find people who won't run away when you show that to them. Because to be completely honest means to expose that side, along with the good side. Most of us, are more sun than dark. Will you love the imperfect person with the dark side? We're worth it, don't run away.