My mother used to tell me that “It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
Her reasoning, if I remember it correctly, is that if you curse the darkness, you might sound big, scary and dangerous, but if you light a candle, all the monsters will immediately know exactly where you are and that you’re nothing but a small, terrified and potentially tasty child left alone in the dark. Might as well get it over with quickly.
What words of wisdom did your parents impart to you?
And how did you interpret them?
