Light

Go into the light. The message is strong, as it is the first thing a new born does when leaving the womb for the first time and experience light for the first time. If one as a natural birth, it might seem like crossing a tunnel and reaching a new destination - your life. Oddly enough, the imagination of many authors is that life should pretty much the same way, where you might experience a new tunnel towards a light that might lead you to a new possibility of being - an afterlife to be sure. In some sense, the light bears the calm as opposition to the scares of darkness. On the other hand, historically, darkness has also been a form of protection to hide from possible predators or enemies that might try to put you in the spotlight. In the navy, the lighthouse has been a sentinel which warns the seamen of the dangers along the shores by using a pulse of light that rotates in a certain pattern carrying a message. Light has been linked to hope, not just because of the connection with birth and afterlife, but rather the need to bring light over darkness in all issues. Light brings clarity wherever darkness has lease. Mind you that light imposes on darkness, but cannot overcome the physical hence leaving the echoes of darkness behind in the form of shadows. Shadows themselves which operate in the twilight, unable to be in either of the world. In the darkness they cannot be seen, and in the light they are exposed for the figment of imagination they might have been if not for the light.