When the darkness dares to creep in uninvited — when it settles in the corners of your mind and whispers that it belongs there — you cannot defeat it by wrestling with shadows.
Darkness has no substance of its own. It is only the absence of light. To overcome it, you must open something. A thought. A window. A door you swore you would never unlock again. You let the light in.
Not all at once. Not in a blaze. Sometimes it is only a crack — a single disciplined action, a single honest conversation, a single refusal to surrender to your lowest impulse.
Light does not argue with darkness. It does not negotiate. It simply arrives, and the darkness has no choice but to retreat.
So when the night presses close, do not curse it. Do not fear it. Become deliberate. Create light. And watch what once felt overwhelming quietly disappear.