DARKNESS COULD NOT REACH ME BECAUSE I SURROUNDED MYSELF WITH SUNS

Can we stop sadness from reaching us? Can we prevent adversity? Can

we eliminate failure? Can we protect ourselves from negativity? Can

we continue growing, remain mentally and physically strong, and live

with abundance, purpose and happiness? And ultimately, can we avoid

darkness? Dr. Abhishek Gilara invites us to look at these questions

differently. Perhaps the answer is not to spend our entire lives fighting

darkness after it arrives, but to build more light before it comes.

A Guru can become a sun, a mentor can become a sun, family can become a sun, and the right people,

discipline, fitness, spirituality, books, knowledge, nature, good habits and purpose can all become suns.

Even the photographs on our walls, the art we see, the greenery surrounding us and the spaces in which

we live can become silent reminders of the person we want to become. This is not a promise of a problem-

free life. Failure may still come, sadness may still visit, and adversity may still knock. But they no

longer meet an unprepared person; they meet an entire ecosystem of light. Eventually, the greatest transformation

begins: the light we repeatedly receive from outside starts growing within us. The student

carries the Guru’s wisdom, the athlete carries the coach’s discipline, the entrepreneur carries the mentor’s

experience, and the child carries the family’s values. Gradually, the person who once needed suns

around him becomes a sun for others. Do not spend your life fighting darkness. Choose your suns.

Strengthen your suns. Live by their light. And then become one.