Are you afraid of the dark?

It all starts when the sun enters the horizon in the west. The magic begins when the magnificent celestial objects becomes visible in the night's sky. Some nights are darker than others while some others are unbelievably bright and beautiful with a lot of wonders waiting to be seen. If you have ever seen a Nebula, then you might actually wonder about the creator and his imaginations and skills of craft and art. The beauty is beyond human proportions, it makes you think if you could ever do something as magnificent as nature itself.

This is a portion of the Carina Nebula, located 7500 Light
Years away in the southern constellation of Carina. This
composite image was made from filters that isolate emission
from iron, magnesium, oxygen, hydrogen and sulphur.
Source: hubblesite.org

Of course, the nature is great and it has been the source of inspiration for all major scientific discoveries and inventions. Starting from Galileo, Newton to Einstein, you name it. But do you know that the night sky and the celestial bodies are not just an inspirational source for beauty and science but astrology too. I have no idea how Astrologers define someone's life paths and tracks them using the stars in the night sky. But sometimes they are really convincing and some intelligent astrologer makes a well informed choice of what to deliver as advice for your future and they intimidate you with scientific proofs which are beyond a layman's reach. 

The night sky may also appear fearsome sometime, depending on the moon's cycle. Let's consider a new moon night and that the dark clouds are hovering some miles over your head. Now imagine the more likely situation of lightening striking down the dark sky and lights up the night for just a second or two. You may now be getting a picture of how it would appear to you seconds after the lightening strike. The fading white light, which just helped you decide where to go. It is really a terrifying picture to realize how dark it is just after the strike ends. There could be a Lion standing just behind you and you don't even realize it. You are now afraid of the lightening now, because you don't want to know what's out there and since every time it shines with the strike, you'll keep on doubting yourself more on how dark the night actually is. Let's make it even worse, consider speedy wind blowing in the neighborhood. Crackling, rustling and sounds of breaking stuffs due to collision due to the wind keeps bugging you. 

A dark stormy night.
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You keep wanting everything to end. The only thing that you can think about at the moment is how badly you wanna go home or how badly you want to see the sun rise. Here's the best part about being in the dark all alone. You not only get to feel life at it's fullest but you are taken to great lengths of patience and being in the dark alone will teach you how to control your mind in stressful situations. 

The reason you feel life at it's fullest when you are in the dark is the fact that adrenaline levels in your body rises due to the situation being "Fight or Flight". Your heart keeps beating faster and it accelerates even more when the lightening flashes it's gates open to give you a hint of heaven's brilliance. This situation brings a thought in your mind and start making you doubt if you will make it through the night. It is when this thought strikes your mind, you want to make the best use of your little time left. Well secondly, you start developing stress and thoughts of whiling the night at the spot where you are stuck due to the rain, let it be an abandoned mansion or a creepy hut in the forest, or whatever creepy that comes in your mind right now. Now this stress is not going away until the dark of the night subsides in the light of the sun. But you have to bear it anyway, and now compare this with the stress you have while standing in a long queue. Yeah, now you got the picture of how you can learn to control your mind by being out in the dark, alone.

I would like to summarize this by the simple approximated inverse relation between $0$ and $\infty$, i.e. $$ \infty = \frac{1}{0}$$ 

You can see the difference between the values of these two numbers; while one of it is nothing, the other is everything. You just need to choose which side of the fraction you want to be.