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Originally Posted by Glass Joe  This might sound like just semantics at first, but the distinction I guess I want to make hear is that fear usually means running away from something, and not really achieving or creating anything. And I don't think the Dark-side runs from anything any more than the Light-side, but just looks at things differently, and wants different things. I see it more like a darkworker loving to be selfish and a lightworker equally loving to be selfless. It's more like the love-based emotions of "passion" vs. the love-based emotions of "devotion". One focuses inward, the other focuses outward. Yin and Yang. They are separate, yet both are related. |
I enjoy your Star Wars analogies.
It's almost like positive and negative in a battery. You can't have one without the other. I think those of us who feel like gray is better are sort of charging our batteries with input from both sides. When the time comes, we can then polarize. Or as the case may be, we may simply pass on our gray energy to others who may choose to polarize it.
Knowledge of things is gray. It can be used for good or bad. If you want to put it into play, that takes polarity. Polarity is the means of manifesting potential, whereas gray is the means of accumulating it.
Many successful writers are gray, I think. Terry Pratchett, for example. The gray strategy is to reach mastery of things through knowledge, skill, intelligence, and persistence. A person can be unconsciously gray, in which case they may suffer for it, because others can manipulate them to polarize at random, rather than as a conscious decision. If we value self and others equally, we can choose to temporarily polarize in the most profitable direction in a given situation.
At least, this is my feel for it. I haven't been polarity-conscious for long.