“It is not impossible to live contently beneath the black sun, just as the sun delivers its warmth upon your face even in winter winds.”

Taylor M Wilson

What does this mean?

Um.. I kind of hope the ideas of the black sun kinda make sense just off like.. the context of my other posts I guess? (let me now if it makes no sense) Basically what I am trying to say, without using my personal terminology, is that regardless of underlying, uncontrollable, just like deep senses of dread that some people have in their lives, you can still live contently. It doesn’t need to be a constant fight of trying to alter what you can’t control. In fact, I think it is likely that the excess efforts one puts towards changing that which cannot be controlled, work against oneself. In disregarding the possibility that such things may be unchangeable, you surrender the efforts that could be given to finding a way to exist within it, further to the black sun.

Now, I don’t, by any means, think that there is complete hopelessness within the uncontrollable nature of these things. It is entirely possible that the thing in question is something capable of escaping. It is entirely plausible to try to escape these bad things to the fullest potential of ones efforts. However, this does not mean that at the same time, you can’t be working to live contently in such circumstances. No internal struggle is some straight lined progression. Just as there are multiple layers to ones consciousness, there can be multiple processes taking place at once through out the course of ones attempt to change their circumstances. While one part of you fights strenuously to change a perhaps unchangeable force in your life, another can work calmly, to find a place within the struggle where things.. will maybe be okay or at least not so bad. There are going to be things that will bring that warmth into your life. In your efforts I’m sure you will find that within the same darkness that you wish to escape, there is such warmth, or perhaps cool waters that will grant you a sense of relief. Contentment.

I will leave off with a last set of phrases, each from different mindsets regarding the same thing, to illustrate my point.

“To lie ever contently beneath the black sun, unwavering before its shadow.”

or..

“To exist a prisoner to the black sun, suffering beneath its shadow forevermore.”

Thank you for reading. I know this was a short post but I haven’t really had the energy to try to write something readable in the recent days. Yes this is another post on contentment, but it is something of focus in my life right now, and I find value in exploring things through sharing them, or simply writing them down. This blog is not only in hopes that other people will find comfort in my words, but that I can also gain a better understanding of my reality through this sort of self reflection.

Again, thank you so much for reading. I would love to see any comments, just something I can reply to, any criticism or questions on what I am writing. I hope reading this may have helped you in some way. Thank you.

With all hopes of future joys,

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