The Dark Side
Have you ever gone out late at
night and felt a faint fear that something bad might happen? Try going out
every night and that fear starts vanishing. But about that fear, whenever you
go out at night very rarely, what is that feeling? Why do we feel it? Why do
you not feel it when you go out every day?
Before we answer these questions,
I have something to share, maybe that experience will answer all the questions.
Also I have been very reluctant to write anything on this topic because I’ve
tried explaining this to a lot of people but most of them couldn’t understand
or didn’t agree with me.
I was a nocturnal animal
for almost six months in my life. Before that I was always afraid of going out
late at night. The fears were many including getting stopped by police for no
wrong reason, having a bad encounter, getting robbed and what not. But suddenly
all these fears started fading away as I started going out more often at night.
I began liking that life. I felt powerful and fearless. Nothing could scare me,
not police not any bad encounter nothing.
As more and more days passed by,
I started making different kind of friends, the people I normally didn’t like
to even talk before. And I started noticing people more, I started seeing
people who work at a good position in top global companies behaving in a crude
way and started seeing a lot of people getting more straight forward in
platonic or non-platonic conversations. After a month I started feeling that
those people completely change or transform into a new person who is bolder,
more fearless, more rash and wilder. I began sensing that there is a dark side
to this world in which we live in and I may have just discovered it.
I have always been fascinated by
the dark movies and tv series. All the David Fincher movies show the dark side
of the world. The fact that they are too close to the real world makes them
very engaging for me. I always believed the existence of the dark side off the
world around us and I found it. The dark side is addictive, it’s has its
different set of rules and rarely anyone makes well thought decisions. In that
world, walking in the middle of the road is not dangerous, driving on the wrong
side is allowed and you can just talk to someone new everyday about anything
you want and no one will give a damn about it.
The night, I feel, is a monster. It’s
an animal and a notorious one. A lot of incidents that may sound like a big
deal in daytime seem pretty ordinary in the night i.e. the dark side. A near
road accident may draw the attention of a lot of people in daytime, but in the
dark side it seems like an ordinary thing. This is the beauty of the dark side.
But all of this may seem good at
that moment but as you continue exploring this side of the world, you start
drifting away from reality. That part of the world does not fuel the real world
around us. It is just a side that not a lot of people explore. And even if you
want to explore the dark side, you should know when to come out of it. At the
end of the day there should be a balance between the two worlds. If you lose
the balance you may start hating the day life or the real life.
A lot of people I know who tried
to get out of the dark world showed withdrawal symptoms. It became very
difficult for them to get out of it as they got so used to the high of the dark
side that the normal world seemed bland to them.
Maintaining a balance on
everything is a very difficult task. Almost of everyone is trying to do it in
some way or the other that ranges from work-life balance to balanced eating
habits etc. But one should keep putting in efforts to try and obtain an
equilibrium. Nothing is good or bad in the world but excess of anything is
never good.
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