Playing with the Dark – Careless in the Shadows

We find the dark rather compelling. It’s one of those terribly tantalizing things that we like to reach out and touch just long enough to see what it’s like. Then whether its guilt, or a conscience pricked, or fear over what we just walked into, we jump back and ponder what we’ve just done. And too often the pondering teases us just enough to prompt us to reach out and do it again.

We might want to be informed about the “dark” before we determine if we’re going to play with it. And we might want to take that thought process out one step further and determine why we’re tempted to play with it in the first place. In doing so we live with a wisdom that allows us to fully explore life right out to the very edges of life without getting destroyed in the exploration.