Do not think of the shadow as something without meaning.

If there were no shadow, we would never truly know ourselves.

If there were no shadow, we would never search for light.

The shadow reminds us that where
there is life, there will also be night. But night is never the end—morning always finds its way.

But do not stop waiting for the morning.
Do not disappear by becoming someone else's shadow.

Do not lose your own identity in another's presence.
Instead — be the light.
Be like the sun,
whose rising every heart quietly waits for,
every single day.
— Vandana Sood