People often assume that life and death are opposites, just like the concept of shadow and light. Although they sound like opposites, I believe that one cannot exist without the other. It makes me wonder, what's a world without both light and shadow? what's a world without life and death? Does that contradict nature's principles? But does nature really have any principles? If they do, who governs, who monitors, and who adheres to these principles? who speaks nature's propaganda to the world? Is it us humans because we are "gifted" with 6-senses? Or does nature speak for itself? Does it matter at all? If so, to whom does it matter? and to whom it doesn't? It is analogous to how people perceive that questions and answers exist to contradict each other. We think answers deconflict questions and dissolve them. But do they? I believe that questions exist to gain clarity on answers and answers exist to gain clarity on questions to ask next. Doesn't that make them complementary? They complement each other and thus contribute to something as a whole. Yes, they exist separately, and so does the spectrum of light.

Let us imagine for a moment, a world without shadow (taking into account that we already know what a world without light looks like, or rather what a world without light "doesn't" look like). The most important aspect of sight is the 3rd dimension or depth. It is caused by the contrast created by shadows and how they slowly blend to create a distribution of shades. Can you imagine how it would feel if you can't distinguish between objects that are near and objects that are far away? The only distinction is in color, and that's the second thing. There are no colors in the universe. It's just our eyes' way of differentiating energy levels. If that's true, a world without shadow is just a plain image of whatever color the source light is, which we can never probably imagine, and it gets more complicated with multiple light sources.

The apt question for you to ponder in this paragraph is where am I taking this? Am I trying to tell someone something? Or am I trying to ask someone something? As I can recall, the 1st paragraph was about people in general. The 2nd paragraph was about us, you the reader, and me the writer (obviously a bad one). so, I guess this paragraph is and will be about me. I have asked a lot of questions in this article, most of which could not be answered, not only because they are hypothetical and nonsensical but also because not everything needs an answer. That also doesn't mean they don't have an answer. I may have answers, but they might not satisfy others. My answers would only lead to more questions and those questions would lead to more answers. That's exactly what I want this article to be about. Everything we consider as opposites cannot exist separately without the other. Shadow cannot exist without light and so can’t light without shadow. When one is inevitable, the other is too. That reminds me of a famous quote by a favorite person of mine:

"There's something just as inevitable as death and that's life." - Charlie Chaplin in Limelight 1952

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