Keep Your Candle Lit

"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one small candle."
~Robert Aiden

I saw this quote, there on the board, one day as I walked into my first block at school. I sat down, and stared at this tiny statement forever. It held so much power over me and I couldn't figure out why. I sat there and thought about it, rolling the words around in my head, trying to make sense of them. Soon, the end of class had arrived and I was rushed out the door. On a tiny piece of paper I jotted down these words so I would never forget them and hurried on to my next class. I thought about these words for three days, and still couldn't make sense of them. So I googled the guy who said it, Robert Aiden; maybe knowing the author's background could help me. Well, what do you know, I find nothing. So today, while sitting in my English class, I was staring at these words and something just clicked. I knew what the mysterious Robert Aiden was saying, what he was talking about.
Hope. He was talking about hope.

Think About This.....

The definition of hope, according to dictionary.com, is "the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best." Hope is thinking optimistically and believing that events will turn out for the better and that everything will be okay. Without hope we would all be in a very difficult position. Without hope the whole world would all be not only very pessimistic but we'd see the worst in people and think there's nothing but evil out there. Without hope we wouldnt believe in goodness. We'd be consumed in a world of mass paranoia that no one can be trusted. And some people do live in that kind of world. We have to remember though that there can always be hope. And hope is like the little candle we all hold inside us, it's your choice however whether or not we want to keep it lit.

Darkness can represent many things, and I think the most commonly associated with darkness is evil. And I think that's what our mysterious Robert Aiden was trying to convey by saying this. There is evil in the world, and darkness. Think about what you see on the six o'clock news. It's not often the headlines are something good happening in the world today but something, quite frankly, depressing. You always hear about the bad things, the evil things that are happening in the world. People killed, wars and politics, scandals and robberies. Dare I go on? I won't deny it, or sugar-coat it. Yes there is some evil out there. And bound to be negativity. There's evil and there's darkness.

However, like our mysterious author said in his maxim, there's not enough darkness in the world to extinguish the flame of one small candle. No matter how small. Which means that, yes, there are evils out there but we must see the good in things, think about the positive. Keep hope alive. We must believe in the good. No amount of darkness should demolish that little flicker of hope. Nothing should. We should keep hope, and build the hope. Yes, sometimes you might be disappointed and maybe think of that other saying "don't get my hopes up" but after awhile, when you've learned how to see the good from the disappointment then you'll learn how to get over it faster. You won't be as pessimistic. Keep hope up, think positively. It's healthy for you.

Much like you can't very well watch the news and say "the entire world is coming to an end" you can't say you're going to fail a class over the tiniest bad grade.

My point is that you have to think positively. You have to see the good in things instead of the worst. You learn how to bring up the grade, to realize the good in the news, you have to learn to see the good. You have to keep your hope. You have to keep the little light inside you burning.

Keep Your Candle Lit

xo
Kayy