Once my nephew came to me and told me that he will not go out in the light as someone follows him always and he is always dark and never leaves his side. He sounded really scared of his own shadow. He was too young to understand science but grown up enough to recognize his shadow. When we grow up, we understand why do we have a shadow but we do not want anyone to follow us as we feel we are constantly under an eye. let’s see when do we have shadow? When we are in light and we block that light, the shadow falls on the ground and follows us. We keep living our life without realizing or looking at the future consequences and we may end up doing something in the heat of the moment which we may regret later. I definitely do not say that do not live the life by worrying about the future, live your life by the moment but live with your integrity. If you have compromised that, shadow gets darker.Whether someone knows that or not we know what we have done. Even if we have done something which may sound right we know why we did that and we know we had lost ourselves somewhere. Especially if we had somewrong intentions. We start creating a darker side of self which is made up of our fears, guilts, insecurities and most importantly fear of what we are hiding and what if someone else gets to know what we have done. We see this shadow clearly when we are in the clear day light and the shadow disappears when we are in dark. However, we forget that we have the shadow as we blocked the light. This light gives us freedom to live free and when we stop being free we have a shadow as we are blocking that. The shadow never left us, it just disappeared in dark and reappeared in light. You cannot keep living in darkness by being afraid of shadows. You have to come out in light and move along with own shadow fighting your fears and guilt so that you can let the light be around you. You do not have to go back to darkness as you do not want to see a shadow, instead of that, you need to learn to live with it as for that you will be in light. Once you will learn to live in light, you will know that shadow is just your silhouette not the darkness.
